RUTH BADER GINSBURG COULDN'T DRIVE?

Fabulous facts and foibles from the life and career of the legendary Supreme Court justice.

As it happens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not only a poor driver, but also such a terrible cook that her husband took over both driving and kitchen duties. Following the format of other entries in the Wait! What? series, this title sees bookish sibs Paige and Turner exchange in dialogue biographical bits and bobs that, taken together, make up a colorful profile of the late, great Ginsburg—with value-added side lists like other southpaws of renown, statistics that trace the rising number of women attending law school over her lifetime, and exclamations of amazement that the Supreme Court justices get their own parking garage, gym, basketball court, and spittoons (the last repurposed as trash cans). Though Gutman does plant one potential bomb by name-dropping Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (the author was a professor of hers at Cornell), in general, he offers a judicious selection of facts to illuminate her character and career, including encounters with gender discrimination and antisemitism, nods to some of her most prominent cases as she climbed the judicial ladder, and her unlikely friendship with archconservative colleague Antonin Scalia. Steinfeld adds plenty of simply drawn vignettes and thumbnail portraits…mostly of White figures, though the two young narrators present as African American.

Likely to fill in some gaps even for devoted fans of the Notorious RBG.