A new book, recommended for children aged 4 - 9 has been published, just a few weeks ago. It is listed by booksellers Angus and Robertson and Booktopia in Australia, and seems to be widely available.
She Stitched the StarsThe Smithsonian’s web page on the 1876 Solar System quilt:
A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt
By Jennifer Harris, illustrated by Louise Pigott
In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, an Iowa storekeeper’s wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today, the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen’s daughters, who, like their mother, lived in a time when girls and women were expected to limit their pursuit of knowledge, and who may have been inspired to dream bigger and look farther. … Albert Whitman and Company (publisher)
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