Top Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses

Examines the lives of eight men and one woman, including Sam Walton, L.L. Bean, Walt Disney, and Rose Totino, who built once-small businesses into well-known enterprises

Gr 4-7-Two collective biographies of innovative people. Top Entrepreneurs features the contributions of L.L. Bean, Walt Disney, Bud Hillerich (manufacturer of the ``Louisville Slugger'' baseball bat), Sam Walton (Wall-Mart retail chain), and John Johnson, who founded Johnson Publishing Co., publishers of Ebony, Jet, and EM. Women Inventors recognizes that women were not always given credit for their inventions. In South Carolina, still a colony, Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney developed an indigo plant that produced a superior dye. Madam C.J. Walker, inventor of hair-care products for black women, used her considerable fortune to enhance the lives of others. More modern inventors are also included: Betty Graham, inventor of ``liquid paper''; Grace Hopper, inventor of the computer compiler; and Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll. Both books are illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Informative and well-organized volumes.-Margaret M. Hagel, Norfolk Public Library System, VA Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information.