Saving the Day
Garrett Morgan's Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal

A picture book biography in rhyme about Garrett Morgan, an inventor who created things like the foundation of the modern traffic light and the zigzag stitch on sewing machines. An interesting picture book biography of an inventor I hadn't heard much about, but who also invented things like the founda......more

Tells the story of Garrett Morgan who created the first three-way traffic signal. It's more fictionalized than I like in my narrative non-fiction, but it tells the story of Garrett not finding his "thing" until he was a little older. In comparison, his siblings found what they were good at when they......more

This book was super interesting. I learned about Garrett Morgan‘s invention of the traffic signal; the book is told in rhyme. And it turns out that traffic signal was just one of his inventions. Mr. Morgan lived during a time filled with racism and discrimination, and yet he became a prominent busin......more

Garrett Morgan was an inventor whose creations have saved many lives - the traffic signal, and a gas mask among other things. When he was a boy, though, he was a dreamer and being a dreamer, he didn't necessarily pay attention to the here and now. That got him into some trouble, but he prevails. The......more

A successful, rhyming account of Black inventor Garrett Morgan's early life and invention of the traffic signal. While not all lines scan perfectly, as happens in any all-rhyming book, I thought this was an engaging and appealing story great for early elementary listeners and would definitely recomm......more