Unfortunately, I was unable to read this book due to a formatting issue.

My review is based on the blurb.

A wonderful book that is filled with beautiful illustrations and interesting information. As titled, this is a picture book with simple text about important inventions created by women. These inventors whose exposure to different aspects of daily lives and their attention to details inspired them to be pioneers in their own time. Both educational and entertaining, I highly recommend this surprising gem to readers of all ages.

Definitely a book that we need to see in primary schools. We focus a lot on inventions (through Science curriculum) and how 'girls can do anything' (in general for same-sex schools) separately, but this is a great mixture of the two. Great for generating discussion about both history and the future.

A wonderful book that is filled with beautiful illustrations and interesting information. As titled, this is a picture book with simple text about important inventions created by women. Their brilliance has changed human history for the better. This book is inspiring to show women are as capable as men to make differences in our world. These inventors whose exposure to different aspects of daily lives and their attention to details inspired them to be pioneers in their own time. Both educational and entertaining, I highly recommend this surprising gem to readers of all ages.

A fabulous book for your kids! This book is full of information, and it is presented in a way that makes it easy to absorb and share with younger minds.
My kids absolutely loved reading this book with me!

Who knew? I always thought Monopoly was created by a man fro PA during the Depression. NOPE ! it was a woman! Women also invented disposable diapers and dish washers! Best of all? WIFI! not only a woman, but an ACTRESS! Seriously, who would guess! This was a fun and informative read that belongs in every classroom and in every library that has a women's inventor collection.

This book is a wealth of information on the many contributions made by women, many of them unsung heroes. This a great resource to use in the classroom, especially during Women’s History month in March. We tend to read about the more famous historical figures like Amelia Earhart and many others, but it’s the more unknown women I want my students to learn about, the ones they can readily identify with. I will definitely be using this book in my classroom.

Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women: 15 Incredible Inventions from Inspiring Women! by Aitziber Lopez is a children's non fiction book that shares the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions by trailblazing women, who each made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology. Car heaters, Monopoly, Disposable diapers, the dishwasher, Kevlar, Maritime flares, Anti-reflective glass, Wifi, Syringes, Submarine periscopes, Diagnostic tests, Lifeboats, Windshield wipers and Ebooks were all pioneered by women! Each invention is presented with biographical information about the brilliant woman who came up with it, including what inspired them. Learn how Martha Coston disguised herself as a man to contact pyrotechnicians and convince them to manufacture her idea for maritime flares, how a New York tram ride on a wet winter’s day led Mary Anderson to invent the windshield wiper, and why Letitia Mumford Geer’s one-hand operated syringe was a medical breakthrough, among other fascinating facts. Full-page illustrations show the inspiration for and use of these incredible inventions in humorous detail.

Brilliant Ideas is a wonderful primer about some of the women inventors that have changed the world with their ideas. I think that the combination of information about the actual science and engineering of each invention is lightly covered, but the struggles these women faced to be taken seriously or just get their work done is very well detailed. I have heard the basics of some of these stories before, but not all of them. I was glad to have more details on the lives of some of these women, and to learn about the others. For instance, I knew Hedy Lamarr's work was the basis for Wifi and bluetooth, but I did not know about the treatment she endured in her marriage. This was and informative and engaging read with a nice balance of illustrations to keep the attention of distracted readers.

I think this book would be a great read in homes and classrooms. It can be used to inspire inventors, and to show perseverance to readers. It can also help show how far rights and perceptions of women have come, how long it has taken, and how much further we really need to go for everyone to be treated equally and respected.

Did you know the idea for the Monopoly board game came from a woman? Neither did I. Elizabeth Magie Phillips is just on woman in the pages of this book. How about protecting our “boys in blue”, yep thinks to a female scientist and her invention of Kevlar. Overall, i love this book and can not wait to add it to the collection. However my copy was a galely and has quite a few mistakes and dropped lines. If that is fixed this is a 5 star book. If it’s not it’s 2 star.

In today's world we are finally recognising women and their abilities, discoveries and awesomeness.
For a long time, women were deemed the weaker sex, less able to deal with work and stress and certainly not able to invent, discover or "do" anything worthwhile.
Now to celebrate women there are some amazing and inspiring stories coming to light- including the ones in this new book.
Inventions we take for granted or know little about the background of come to light in this book.

There are some wonderful illustrations to accompany the stories of women who have made a true impact on life as we know it today.

I would buy this for schools and for my own daughter so she can understand how important she is and how she could change the world if she wanted!

This short book is about fifteen impressive inventions that were created by women. To name just a few...the windshield wiper, the car heater, kevlar, medical diagnostic tests, the syringe, the life raft and early wifi technology. A great book for women's history month. It hightlights women's creativity and will remind children that good ideas can lead to new products that we all use.

This book has the perfect team of writer and illustrator. The text is informative. The illustrations are bold, humorous and very appealing.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a fun and inspiring read. Perfect for grade schoolers.

What a great book! A super idea to promote women in history, I was a little disappointed to find most of them were American, I’m not sure if that’s because there just were more American women with some great invention ideas or author bias. It was great to read through with my daughter

I wanted to like this book. The basic premise is great. But this is so, so sloppy. I doubt anyone read the e-book before it was put up on NetGalley. It's full of cut-off sentences, terrible punctuation, and outright errors.

There are two instances that I noticed of dates that are 100 years off (the second one being pretty obvious, as someone who was born in 1947 couldn't possibly have had her invention on the Titanic when it sank). For non-fiction books for kids, I want the factual information to be spotless. The punctuation may just have been a translation issue, but it really should've been caught. (So should the random line of Spanish text in the section about Ángela Ruiz Robles's invention.) And there are at least three instances where the text is cut off in mid sentence, probably to preserve formatting and make the book look pretty.

The illustrations are okay, but there are some errors there, too. The page talking about the underwater telescope shows a periscope (they're not the same thing) and the Monopoly game has kids playing with coloured plastic pieces, rather than the tiny metal objects. There's no excuse for that; those pieces are one of the most recognizable things about Monopoly!

Maybe I should've clued in when I saw the publisher. Wide Eyed Editions also published Super Scientists, which I found abysmal from a technical point of view. I expect a lot better from children's non-fiction, and I can't bring myself to recommend any book with this many errors, no matter how great the premise is.

If this book is edited more closely and some of the illustrations are fixed to make it more accurate, it could be decent. I might also put the inventions in a more chronological order, because as it is, they just kind of skip around all over the place and there's no real reason for the arrangement that I can see. In its current form, though, I can't recommend this one at all. Check out Vashti Harrison's Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World instead; it's also about brilliant women, but the execution is far better.

“Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women” is a quick read about intelligent women who invented 15 things we use today, or items that were the basis for future inventions, still used today. Dishwashers, ebooks and the game Monopoly are just a few included examples.

As I read this book, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the book “Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World”. Though “Brilliant Ideas” does not include as much information or as much science, it reminded me of “Headstrong”, focusing on the numerous accomplishments of women from various backgrounds.

The book also includes illustrations. I enjoyed the book and the images, though there appear to be serious formatting and alignment issues with the ARC ebook version. Once these are fixed, “Brilliant Ideas” would make a great gift to inspire young women and reminds all of us of the endless possibilities when we have the right idea, think creatively, and remain determined.

This is a bit like the little lives book series in that this just gives a taste of what these women inventors did, and how they did it. But it is a good starting point. And the choices that were made to highlight are of women that I was unware of, other then Hedy Lamarr.

And what do they say about necessity being the mother of invention. Most of these women came up with these inventions because of the need that they saw, that in some case, men, would not have noticed, such as the woman, Marion O'Brien Donovan, who invented disposable diapers or Josephine Garis Cochrane who invented the first dishwasher.

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Great introduction to women inventors. Hopefully kids will get inspired to find out more about these and other great women.

Thanks to NetGalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women is a nice little book with the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions, all invented by women. It covers the invention, the idea behind it and the woman who made the unique contribution to the history of science and technology.

From Car heaters to the game of Monopoly, From household items like Disposable diapers & dishwasher to Kevlar & Maritime flares, Even others like Anti-reflective glass, WiFi, Syringes, Submarine periscope and even Ebooks. The only thing common to all these inventions was that they were all invented by women!

The book itself is dedicated to unsung women inventors, rather than the many well known women scientists . The book also focuses more on inventions that are part of our everyday life and inventions which made the life of people easier. It is incredible that how little we knew about these women and the challenges they had to face. Like how Martha Coston, the inventor of maritime flares, has to disguise herself as a man to convince pyro-technicians to use her idea for maritime flares.

The book covers 15 inventions; each invention presented with a little biographical information about the woman who invented it along with the brief story on what inspired them to invent it. The highlight of the book is the beautifully detailed and colorful full-page illustrations of each of the inventions and the idea behind each invention. I wish the book was longer but hopefully, we will get to read a sequel to this book soon. Overall, this book is a great tribute of some of the great women inventors of their times. Hopefully, it will inspire people (especially the younger readers) to read more about them.

Many Thanks to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Wide Eyed Editions for the ARC

Great book to showcase different inventions by women! I loved the cheerful and colorful retro illustrations.

A list of things invented by women, featuring stylized and pretty impressive artwork.
Right from the start, with the invention of the car heater, it makes me laugh; you can really see the distress of the shivering woman. Same with the dog.
Some might say that inventing dental floss trumps disposable nappies, but I guess that’s only people who don’t have kids.
Coolest invention had to be Kevlar. Or the periscope.
Sea flares and life rafts invented by different women. Add the periscope, and it seems like women rule the seas.

Delightful discoveries on every page. That was my first thought as I read this book. Other thoughts included – ‘Who knew?’, ‘Really!’, ‘So this is how this came about :)!’, and so on.

It is simply full of ‘proud-that-I-am-a-woman’ moments when I read this book. Women account for so many wonderful, useful, making-everyday-lives-easier-better-safer inventions that I did not know about earlier (and that is definitely one of the reasons we need books like these). And you will learn about them too in ‘Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women’.

I love that the sections for each woman includes more than just the brilliant idea. It also includes the inspiration behind the brilliant idea and the efforts the women had to take to bring their idea to reality (dress like a man – check; keep going at it in-spite of obstacles galore – check; and more).

In addition, little data ‘bubbles’ around the pages provide some more fun stuff; such as, other ideas these wonderful women are credited with and/or some additional interesting facts about them.

I love that this can lead to encouraging more girls towards STEM by showing them that if these women could do it in-spite of all the obstacles they faced, girls today can definitely #MakeWhatsNext with all the opportunities they have.

Last but not the least, the illustrations! They are bright, full of whimsical details, informative, and totally creative to fit perfectly with brilliant ideas and wonderful women, with just the right touch of humor too.

Additional Notes:

I do wonder why the book cover uses the word ‘by‘ (Brilliant Ideas By Wonderful Women), while everywhere else, the title has the word ‘from‘ (Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women) instead.
This book includes only women from the USA. Again, the pros of this book overpower this caveat and I hope the author and illustrator work together to create more books to include a diverse set of women around the world.
Since this book is aimed at really younger audiences, a helpful glossary of ‘big’ words used in the book would have made the book even better. Including an index of additional resources for the older reader to look into would be another wonderful plus for this book, if possible (maybe in a future edition or in the next book like this)
And a minor, minor caveat: the e-arc I used for review purposes had some issues – missing words mainly between pages – lost in …. whatever. But I am hoping and am sure the published edition will be without any such errors. Note that this does not detract from the wonders of the book!

In Summary:
This is one brilliant book where there is something for everyone to discover. And you might be inspired to come up with brilliant ideas of your own which will be used all over the world sometime in the future!

A great addition to any school library (and homes too). To encourage more girls towards and to stay in STEM programs, to inspire everyone to explore and to work to make their ideas a reality.

Rating: 5/5
Reading Level: 5 – 8 years (and above as well!)

Disclaimer: Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the eARC of this book. The opinions expressed are my honest thoughts as I read the book.

I received an electronic ARC from Quarto Publishing through NetGalley.
Information text on fifteen different inventions created or developed by women. A two-page spread for each provides facts and illustrations to introduce elementary level readers to these inventions.
Some of the text is disjointed but readers will be able to follow the concepts.
Use as a springboard to further study of these women.