design - children's book "Who invented it?"

Who actually invented the car? The lightbulb or the jeans we all wear? Many things we take for granted today didn't just appear. Clever inventors, scientists and engineers are behind it! While many discoveries are the result of teamwork and long evenings in the lab, others are the result of serendipity. Who invented it? is an inspiring visual journey through the past, showing how surprising inventions and ingenious ideas paved the way for today's technology, culture and medicine.

Anne Ameri-Siemens brings her many years of experience as a journalist and author to her first children's book, in which she tells exciting stories about human development and the changing world. She writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper and the SZ magazine , among others. With the filming of her Spiegel bestseller For the RAF he was the system, for me the father she was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2008.

Becky Thorns is the illustrator of the 2020 World Illustration Award nominated Little Figures bestseller The World of Whales . She has worked as an illustrator and typographer since graduating from Falmouth University with an art degree in 2015. She lives in Cornwall, England.

Illustrated by Becky Thorns
Narrated by Anne Ameri-Siemens

Age recommendation: from 9 years

Category: non-fiction
Features: Hardcover , full color, thread-bound, 96 pages

Format: 20.5 x 26 cm

ISBN 978-3-89955-106-8

Release date: March 10, 2021