Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine by Tucker, Zoë

Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780735843172)

Vendor: Zoë Tucker
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine by Tucker, Zoë

Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine

$18.95
Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine by Tucker, Zoë

Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine

$18.95
Format: Hardcover
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This is Ada. Although she might look like an ordinary little girl, she's about to change the world.

Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, is an inquisitive child. Like her clever mother, she loves solving problems--big problems, little problems, and tricky, complicated problems. Ada invents crazy contraptions and reads all the books in the library of her father, the poet Lord Byron; but most of all she loves to solve mathematical problems. Together with her teacher, the mathematician Charles Babbage, Ada invents the world's first computer program. Her achievements made her a pioneer for women in the sciences.

Zoë Tucker's words capture the adventurous life of Ada succinctly, and debut picture book illustrator Rachel Katstaller's art infuses Victorian London with humor.

"An impressively balanced mix of engaging description and important facts with a quick explanation of the gender politics of the time and information about Ada's legacy...Inspiring, feminist, and informative in equal parts." -Kirkus Reviews

Author: Zoë Tucker
ISBN-10: 0735843171
ISBN-13: 9780735843172
Publisher: Northsouth Books
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
School Library Journal 08/02/2019 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
By Zoë Tucker
By Zoë Tucker
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Zoë Tucker is passionate about picture books and spends (almost) every day in the world of children's publishing. Working as an art director and designer, she has the opportunity to work with authors, artists, and publishers from all over the world. Zoë lives and works on the south coast of England, with her husband, Adam, and her cat, Murray, and she uses a computer (almost) every day! She is the author of many children's books including: Greta and the Giants (Frances Lincoln Children's Books) and Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine (NorthSouth Books).

Rachel Katstaller is an illustrator from tiny tropical El Salvador. After attending the Summer Residency in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2014, Rachel decided to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a children's book illustrator. Since then, Rachel has relocated to the Austrian Alps along with her cat, Hemingway.

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