{"id":228,"date":"2019-02-01T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=228"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:35:07","slug":"the-boo-boos-the-changes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-boo-boos-the-changes-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boo-Boos the Changes the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00a0I love stories of accidental invention. This one is particularly fun to read.<\/p>\n

The Boo-Boos that Changed the World<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Barry Wittenstein; illus. by Chris Hsu
\n32 pages; ages 4-8
\nCharlesbridge, 2018<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, in 1917 actually, a cotton buyer named Earle Dickson married his beloved, Josephine, and they lived happily ever after. The End.<\/em><\/p>\n

Uh, no – that’s actually the beginning. Otherwise it would be a very short story, right? It turns out that Josephine was accident prone. She cut herself on kitchen knives, grated her knuckles – whatever could happen would happen!<\/p>\n

Earle had learned a bit about bandaging wounds from his dad, a doctor. So he tried to come up with a better way to make bandages that Josephine could use herself. Something that she could wind around a cut and that would stick on. Something easy… so he created what would eventually become Band Aids. The end. Except they weren’t as easy to use as he’d hoped. So how could they be improved?<\/p>\n

What I like about this book<\/strong>: I love the fun way that author Barry Wittenstein tells about the accidental invention of Band Aids. I love that he tells part of it, and it seems to be complete, The End. But no, turn the page and there’s more! I like that Earle had to solve real problems, like how to make Band Aids sticky. And how to package them. And how big to make them. And how to market them. (Hint: who uses lots of Band Aids? Boy Scouts!)<\/p>\n

And there is Back Matter (of course!). An author’s note tells more about Earle and his invention, provides a timeline, and a list of other medical inventions.<\/p>\n

Head over to Archimedes Notebook<\/a> for some Beyond-the-Book activities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Sue Heavenrich <\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0I love stories of accidental invention. This one is particularly fun to read. The Boo-Boos that Changed the World by Barry Wittenstein; illus. by Chris Hsu 32 pages; ages 4-8 Charlesbridge, 2018 Once upon a time, in 1917 actually, a cotton buyer named Earle Dickson married his beloved, Josephine, and they lived happily ever after. … <\/p>\n

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