TY - GEN AU - Harrison, Vashti TI - Little leaders: visionary women around the world SN - 9780241346884 CY - New York KW - Historical Characters KW - Strong Womens KW - Children's Literature KW - Girls and Women KW - Non-Fiction KW - Biography N2 - Featuring the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World inspires as it educates. Readers will meet trailblazing women like Mary Blair, an American modernist painter who had a major influence on how color was used in early animated films, actor/inventor Hedy Lamarr, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, architect Zaha Hadid, filmmaker Maya Deren, and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Some names are known, some are not, but all of the women had a lasting effect on the fields they worked in ER -