Author/Illustrator: Barry Wittenstein and Chris Hsu
Genre: Bluebonnet
Age Group: 4th - 6th
Summary:
This story is about how the bandaid was invented. The main character, Earle, marries a girl named Josephine. Josephine is accident-prone and is always cutting herself on a day to day basis. Her husband one day has an idea. He took the adhesive tape, sterile gauze and put material on it called crinoline to keep it sterile. After doing this, Earle told the idea to his boss Mr. Johnson and he loved it! They combined the name "bandage" and "first aid" to create the word "Band-Aid."
Band-Aids were a hit after they came up with a plan on how to create a lot of them at one time.
Overall, this book was really good and I could use this in an invention lesson in my class. If I were doing a history over different objects that have been made throughout the years and have the students pick one and research it and present it. I think the age group would be 4th through 6th grade because they would be able to understand the history of different things.
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