My daughter is only 18 months old now but I want her to grow up and be inspired by the great women who came before her. For me its also really important to showcase boldness and bravery can come in different shapes and sizes. Readers will meet trailblazing women like Mary Blair, an American modernist painter who had a major influence on how color was used in early animated films, actor/inventor Hedy Lamar, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, architect Zaha Hadid, filmmaker Agnes Varda, and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu.

Among these biographies, young readers will find heroes, role models and everyday women who did extraordinary things. Not just for girls, this is an inspiring book for any child as it shows how a determined nature, ambition and hard work can make important change in the world. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. I've been on a quest to find books that aren't entirely full of white heterosexual middle class imagery. Backgrounds are minimal, rendered mostly in pale shades, which leaves the focus on the women and helps ground them in history.It makes a refreshing change to see some pages filled with strong powerful determined achieving Women. Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in the world's history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations. It resulted in this beautiful and profound book, which chronicles the struggles and achievements of historic and contemporary black women. It’s excellent that children can get an introduction to lesser-known African American women such as abolitionist Mary Prince and sculptor Augusta Savage, alongside the better-known Rosa Parks and Sojourner Truth. Now, utilizing both skillsets, she is passionate about crafting beautiful stories for children and young adults in the film and kidlit worlds.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. And Josephine Baker- world famous cabaret singer and dancer- was also a spy for the French resistance?I wanted to see black girls treated with the same sweetness as classic characters like that inspire me!