#kidlit stem

It’s the end of HER MAJESTY ‘S LEAGUE OF REMARKABLE YOUNG LADIES’ first blog tour, and I’d like to share some highlights. Starting with the final blog first, from the inimitable and effervescent blogger Amy, aka Golden Books Girl. Thank you Amy for ‘getting’ my book so thoroughly. Your words are incredibly affirming.

STEM – Making Room For Girls

  11 October is Ada Lovelace Day, a commemoration the plucky Nineteenth Century woman who pioneered computer programming. Ada was the daughter of brooding poet Lord Byron. Ada’s mother, who feared her daughter would inherit some of her father’s flamboyant poetic tendencies, put Ada on a strict diet of mathematics and logic.

The result was a fabulously gifted mathematical mind. Her mentor, Charles…