50 Inspiring Women and Girls Who Changed the Course of History: A Celebration of Herstory

alex k: I have this book in my classroom library for research projects on famous women in history. I bought one for the house to read with my daughter. This book has so much interesting information in bite size chunks.

United States on Jun 10, 2023

LP: This is a very well written book.

United Kingdom on May 22, 2023

Not youNot you: The book cover came with a little tip in the bottom corner, but it’s not a big deal to us. We homeschool and March is Women’s History Month, so this is going to be used all month and our kids will likely read it for months after too!

United States on Feb 26, 2023

Mrs S M Jackson: Bought as a gift.

United Kingdom on Feb 21, 2023

Mrs. Madeleine M. Ward: Its bigger than I thought. Great quality and easy reading for young people

United Kingdom on Dec 15, 2022

hollie: Lovely gift idea. Very good quality.

United Kingdom on Nov 19, 2022

LindaLinda: It is a lovely book, just as described, hopefully it will inspire the little girl I love for whom this is a gift for her 8th birthday. Fortunately there is a paper cover as inside the hardback cover the pages were upside down! Would recommend.

France on Sep 16, 2022

Children's Lit Love: Are your kids homeschooling or distance learning this fall? If you’d allow me to recommend just one thing to buy to support learning, take my word and buy these two books! Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World and Wildlives: 50 Extraordinary Animals That Made History have been favorites in our house for the last 6 months!
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So what makes them worth owning? Each volume contains 50 incredible true stories of women and animals who did amazing things in the world. You’ve likely heard some of these stories (such as Joan of Arc, Helen Keller, and Rosa Parks, or even Balto, Koko, and Roy & Silo), but many will be new. The volumes are organized into categories, like “Rescue & Protect” and “Believe & Lead”. The stories are told over full-page spreads, are brightly illustrated by Sarah Walsh, and include primary source photographs and documents when available.
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Both also include contain back-matter spreads of where the animals were born or when the women were born, which is were we start our readings in the mornings. As you all know, I often read to the girls over breakfast. After we’d...

United States on Aug 14, 2020

TAS: I love reading children's books and this may be my absolute favorite. Each story in the book is so important and well told. I wish this book had existed when I was growing up. They have chosen a diverse selection of women- from all over the world and through time- to highlight as leaders in various fields- art, science, civil rights, etc. What I find so meaningful in this book is that they address the societal issues that help provide context for their achievements, so you learn more about the time period and can really appreciate the contribution. As an adult I have felt inspired by each individual and am learning alongside my daughter. For example, today she wanted to read about Coco Chanel, who did not interest me, but then I learned she designed clothing that were more comfortable for women so they could participate in nontraditional activities.
I originally bought this book for my 4 year old because she was into princesses- watching princess movies and playing dress up. I really wanted to provide with better role models and open her up to more imaginative play. This book has surpassed my expectations in that. While out in nature the other day, she pretended to be...

United States on Jun 06, 2020

Sarah: Bought this for my nieces (aged 6, 6, and 4)—their mom thought it was such a cool book and the girls were all over it! They were reading it at bedtime that very night.

I flipped though it before I gave it to them. The book is arranged like a colored encyclopedia (beautiful illustrations!), with a new bad-ass woman on each page (and there are a LOT of options—from all different countries and ethnicities (YAY!)). I was a history student, currently work in a history industry, and I have to say this book does a good job at both representation and accuracy. It does gloss over certain sensitive aspects (suicide, etc.) due to audience age, but doesn’t sanitize the realities of inequality and racism too much from what I saw. It can be a good conversation starter to talk with young people about difficult topics like this. The wording is fairly dense, so very young kids will probably need someone reading the book with them for a few more years.

An awesome gift for any woman, and SO important for young girls to see themselves shown honestly in a historic context. I doubt they would learn about half of these amazing people in a typical U.S. school.

United States on Jan 21, 2019