{"id":13989,"date":"2018-01-13T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13989"},"modified":"2018-01-13T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:44:43","slug":"picture-books-girl-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13989","title":{"rendered":"Picture Books: Girl Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is all this about books for kids<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Having a number of girls in my life, and having been a girl once myself, I search out books with female characters. Especially of the self-rescuing princess type.<\/p>\n

There is again a good deal of overlap with other posts.<\/p>\n

Girl Power<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Andrea Beaty: Rosie Revere Engineer<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n

Ada Twist Scientist<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2016)
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\"\"<\/a>Cynthia Chin-Lee: Amelia to Zora<\/a><\/em> (2008)
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\"\"<\/a>Barbara Cooney: Miss Rumphius<\/a><\/em> (1983)<\/p>\n

The Lupine Lady lives in a small house overlooking the sea. In between the rocks around her house grow blue and purple and rose-colored flowers. The Lupine Lady is little and old. But she has not always been that way. I know. She is my great-aunt, and she told me so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Demi: One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Long ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair, as a raja should be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Paul Goble: The Girl Who Loved Horses<\/a><\/em>
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\"\"<\/a>Kathleen Krull: Wilma Unlimited<\/a><\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n

No one expected such a tiny girl to have a first birthday. In Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1940, life for a baby who weighed just over four pounds at birth was sire to be limited.<\/p>\n

But most babies didn’t have nineteen older brothers and sisters to watch over them.<\/p>\n

Most babies didn’t have a mother who knew home remedies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Rafe Martin: Rough Faced Girl<\/a><\/em>
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\"\"<\/a>Mal Peet: Cloud Tea Monkeys<\/a><\/em> (2000) <\/p>\n

Tashi and the monkeys met in their usual place, where the endless rows of tea bushes were broken by a jumble of rocks and a tree spread its shadow on the ground. Here she sat and crossed her legs. The monkeys watched her with their deep, serious eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Doreen Rappaport: Elizabeth Started All the Trouble<\/a><\/em> (2016)<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cady Stanton couldn’t go to college but more importantly, she couldn’t vote.<\/p>\n

A brief look at the start of the Women’s Suffrage Movement–and a time when women were still often treated as property rather than citizens.
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Allen Say: Tea with Milk<\/a><\/em> (1999)<\/p>\n

From the window in her room, the girl could see the city of San Francisco. She imagined that it was a city of many palaces. And one day her father would take her there, he had promised, riding on a paddle steamer across the shining bay.<\/p>\n

Her parents called her Ma-chan, which was short for Masako, and spoke to her in Japanese. Everyone else called her May and talked to her in English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Ashley Spires: The Most Magnificent Thing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2014)
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Tanya Lee Stone: The House that Jane Built<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her social activism.
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\"\"<\/a>Deborah Underwood: Intersteller Cinderella<\/a><\/em>
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\"\"<\/a>Laurie Wallmark: Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine<\/a><\/em> (2015)<\/p>\n

Any geek worth their salt knows that Ada Lovelace was the mother of computing. But if you aren’t a geek, then you may never have heard of the daughter of Lord Byron who created programming and changed the world to come.
<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jonah Winter: Frida<\/a><\/em> (Art) (2002)<\/p>\n

I am a heathen. I know next to nothing about art, and generally don’t appreciate it. But even I know of Frida Kahlo.
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Click through on any of the title (or book covers) to see the books on Amazon. (And if you buy, I get a few parts of pennies to build up towards a book for me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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