My heroes growing up were boys. In the books I read, boys got dirty, flew to the moon, sailed pirate ships and generally had a lot more fun.

So I was happy to see these books for children advertised at the Cell Biology meeting. It’s a series about women scientists doing cool stuff: designing robots, camping with gorillas, and busting apart moon rocks.

The series,“Women’s Adventures in Science” is a project of The National Academy of Sciences. I haven’t read any of these books, but I’m intrigued. I hope some little girls are too.

Brendan Maher will be blogging from this conference in DC from Sunday 2 December. Check out his diary reports here on In the Field.

Brendan Maher will be blogging from this conference in DC from Sunday 2 December. Check out his diary reports here on In the Field.