A review by abigailbat
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention by Barry Wittenstein, Chris Hsu

This nonfiction picture book about the invention of the Band-Aid depicts the journey that Earle Dickson took to develop the self-adhesive bandages and get them on store shelves to help not only his accident-prone wife but people all around the world. It's written with a lot of humor as the story unfolds, from Earle's idea to help his wife with a roll of tape with gauze stuck to it to the modern individual bandages that are sold today. I appreciate that the book doesn't stop with the invention itself, but goes on to tell that they were not super popular at first and they had to make some tweaks and do some clever marketing (distributing free samples to the Boy Scouts, for one) to get them to take off. It's interesting to think about such a ubiquitous object as the Band-Aid and look at how it got to where it is.

Hand this to young inventors and/or fans of Pop! by Meghan McCarthy, Whoosh! by Chris Barton, or The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring by Gilbert Ford.