Little Receipts Vol. 1 — We Can Do Big Things! First Stories for Young Dreamers (Standard Companion Edition — EPUB Edition)

Garrett Morgan patented a three-position traffic signal with an everybody-stop pause in the middle — this book does not call him the inventor of the traffic light, because the record is bigger than one man. Sarah Breedlove of Delta, Louisiana — Madam C. J. Walker — built a hair-care company that trained Black women as agents, and gave her money to schools and students on purpose; her wealth is told the honest way here, as a contested claim carried against her documented estate, never as a settled legend. Bessie Coleman, refused by the American flying schools she asked, learned French and earned her pilot's license in France in 1921. Katherine Johnson checked astronaut John Glenn's orbital numbers by hand, at his request, before he would fly. Lonnie Johnson, a NASA engineer, turned a happy accident at home into the Super Soaker. And Mae Jemison — doctor, engineer, and Peace Corps medical officer — became, in September 1992, the first African American woman to travel in space, aboard the shuttle Endeavour.

All 6 chapters, full text (11,516 words). Every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — where the record disagrees, the disagreement is printed, not papered over. The clean EPUB edition (STANDARD COMPANION EDITION), readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone.

The chapters:

Stop, Go — Everybody Stop! Garrett Morgan and the Safer Street

Sarah's Big Idea: Madam C. J. Walker Builds Her Dream

Brave Bessie Flies! Bessie Coleman Takes to the Sky

Count the Stars: Katherine Johnson and the Numbers That Flew

WHOOSH! Lonnie Johnson and the Happy Accident

Dr. Mae in Space: Mae Jemison Reaches the Stars

Big history. Little readers. All receipts.