Good night stories for rebel girls. 2 / Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli.
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- 9780997895827
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 920.72 C377 | Available | 33111008627461 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, showcases 100 brand-new bedtime stories of incredible women throughout history and around the world.
In this book, readers will embark on an empowering journey through 100 new bedtime stories, featuring the adventures of extraordinary women through the ages, such as:
Agatha Christie, Writer
Angela Merkel, Chancellor
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
Beyoncé, Singer, Songwriter, and Businesswoman
Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter
Katherine Johnson, Computer Scientist
Madam C. J. Walker, Businesswoman
Madonna, Singer, Songwriter, and Businesswoman
Oprah Winfrey, TV Host, Actress, and Businesswoman
Sojourner Truth, Activist
The unique narrative style of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls transforms each biography into a fairytale, filling readers with wonder and a burning curiosity to know more about each hero.
After the release of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the passionate community of supporters, spanning 70+ countries, wrote in to suggest the Rebel Girls who inspired them. As a result, the stories in Volume 2 are entirely crowd-sourced and boasts a brand-new graphic design, a glossary, and full-page, full-color portraits of each subject, created by the best female artists of our time.
Sequel to: Good night stories for rebel girls.
Includes folded, pull-out map.
Agatha Christie, writer -- Aisholpan Nurgaiv, eagle huntress -- Alice Ball, chemist -- Andrée Peel, French Resistance fighter -- Angela Merkel, Chancellor -- Anita Garibaldi, revolutionary -- Anne Bonny, pirate -- Audrey Hepburn, actress -- Beatrice Vio, fencer -- Beatrix Potter, writer and illustrator -- Beyoncé, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman -- Billie Jean King, tennis player -- The Black Mambas, rangers -- Boudicca, Queen -- Brenda Milner, neuropsychologist -- Buffalo Calf Road Woman, warrior -- Madam C. J. Walker, businesswoman -- Carmen Amaya, Dancer -- Celia Cruz, singer -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, writer -- Christina of Sweden, Queen -- Clara Rockmore, musician -- Clara Schumann, pianist and composer -- Clemantine Wamariya, storyteller and activist -- Corrie Ten Boom, watchmaker -- Eleanor Roosevelt, politician -- Ellen Degeneres, comedian and TV host -- Florence Chadwick, swimmer -- Gae Aulenti, architect and designer -- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter -- Gerty Cori, biochemist -- Giusi Nicolini, mayor -- Gloria Steinem, activist -- Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor -- Hortensia, orator -- Isadora Duncan, dancer -- J.K. Rowling, writer -- Jeanne Baret, housekeeper and explorer -- Joan Beauchamp Procter, zoologist -- Johanna Nordblad, ice diver -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, computer scientists -- Katia Krafft, volcanologist -- Khoudia Diop, model -- Lauren Potter, Actress -- Leymah Gbowee, peace activist -- Lilian Bland, aviator -- Lorena Ochoa, golfer -- Lowri Morgan, ultramarathon runner -- Luo Dengping, extreme rock climber -- Madam Saqui, acrobat --
Madonna, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman -- Marie Tharp, geologist -- Marina Abramović, performance artist -- Marta Vieira da Silva, soccer player -- Mary Fields, mail carrier -- Mary Kingsley, explorer -- Mary Seacole, nurse -- Mary Shelley, writer -- Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician -- Mata Hari, spy -- Matilda of Canossa, feudal ruler -- Merritt Moore, quantum physicist and ballerina -- Molly Kelly, Daisy Kadibill, and Gracie Fields, Freedom Fighters -- Nadia Comaneci, gymnast -- Nadia Murad, human rights activist -- Nadine Gordimer, writer and activist -- Nefertiti, Queen -- Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress, and businesswoman -- Pauline Léon, revolutionary -- Peggy Guggenheim, art collector -- Poorna Malavath, mountaineer -- Qiu Jin, revolutionary -- Rachel Carson, environmentalist -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, political activist -- Rosalind Franklin, chemist and x-ray crystallographer -- Ruby Nell Bridges, activist -- Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut -- Sappho, poet -- Sara Seager, astrophysicist -- Sarinya Srisakul, firefighter -- Selda Bağcan, singer and songwriter -- Serafina Battaglia, anti-mafia witness -- Shamsia Hassani, graffiti artist -- Simone Veil, politician -- Sky Brown, skateboarder -- Sofia Ionescu, neurosurgeon -- Sojourner Truth, activist -- Sonia Sotomayor, Justice of the Supreme Court -- Sophia Loren, actress -- Sophie Scholl, activist -- Steffi Graf, tennis player -- Temple Grandin, professor of animal sciences -- Troop 6000, Girl Scouts -- Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut -- Valerie Thomas, astronomer -- Violeta Parra, composer and musician -- Virginia Hall, spy -- Vivian Maier, photographer -- Wisława Szymborska, poet -- Yeonmi Park, activist -- Write your own story -- Draw your portrait -- Rebels' Hall of Fame -- Illustrators.
While still inspiring rebel girls of the world to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder, this sequel is bigger than each of us, bigger than our individual hopes, and certainly bigger than our fears.