The name of Ruth Wakefield may not be as well known as her invention, but everyone in the USA knows about chocolate chip cookies!  The first thing one reads is how this popular cookie was developed – original recipe included.  Her life as a young child cooking with her mother and grandmother and going to school with a focus on nutrition follows.  After she and her husband married, they opened a little restaurant in a toll house in Massachusetts.  Specializing on good food and desserts, the restaurant flourished.  They were generous with patrons and sent Toll House cookies to troops throughout WWII.  A deal was made with Andrew Nestle – she got free chocolate for life and he got permission to print her recipe on every bag of chocolate chips, one of his new inventions to go with her cookies!  A good portion of the book is devoted to encouraging children to think of inventions to make something better.  Suggestions are given on how to record thoughts, sketches, and procedures in a logbook, and how to sell the invention or apply for a patent.  Recommended books are focused on inventions and are written at a higher reading level than this book.  Interesting book – either for reports or pleasure!