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Lena Mukhina was a 10-year-old schoolgirl when the Germany army invaded the USSR in 1941 and besieged her home town of Leningrad. She survived the siege and returned to Leningrad after the war.

What interests a child? Is it only chocolates, dolls or the latest gadgets, even mobile phones? Or, is jiving to the latest music videos, being bombarded on music channels day-in-day-out, the only thing they are interested in?
We know the polite…

A fairy tale written by Ford Madox Ford at the age of 18.

An anthology of diaries written by children in Nazi-occupied Europe. Covering the entire war and the breadth of Europe, the diaries record their day-to-day life. Descriptions are given of ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs,…

Patent 1,505,594 for what became the Popsicle.

Patent number 3832556: A lined phosphorescent backing sheet for use in un­derlying relation with writing paper permitting a writer to write in orderly lined form in the dark without need for external light.

Invented by Becky Schroeder at the age…

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins…

Marley Dias made headlines as a sixth grader when she started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign to collect children's books featuring black girl protagonists. In her book Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity, inclusion, and…

Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history.

On a cold and snowy winter's day, 10 year old KK Gregory was out building a snow fort when her wrists started to hurt because they were cold and wet. She remedied the problem by inventing Wristies, and wore them under her coat and mittens. She tested…