cover image Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be

Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be

Charlotte Foltz Jones. Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $11.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-385-32043-6

Droll cartoons illustrate the stories behind the invention of such everyday items as Silly Putty, trouser cuffs, popsicles and penicillin. Ages 8-up. (June)