Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women / Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Favilli, Elena, author.

Cavallo, Francesca, author.

Contributor:

Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in Children's and Young Adult Literature Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Women.

Women--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Juvenile works.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

100 tales of extraordinary women

One hundred tales of extraordinary women

Place of Publication:

[Venice, CA] : Timbuktu Labs, [2016]

Summary:

"To the rebel girls of the world: dream bigger, aim higher, fight harder, and, when in doubt, remember you are right"--Introduction.

"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams. Illustrated by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe, this is the most-funded original book in the history of crowd-funding."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Ada Lovelace, mathematician

Alek Wek, supermodel

Alfonsina Strada, cyclist

Alicia Alonso, ballerina

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President and scientist

Amelia Earhart, aviator

Amna Al Haddad, weightlifter

Ann Makosinski, inventor

Anna Politkovskaya, journalist

Artemisia Gentileschi, painter

Ashley Fiolek, Motocross racer

Astrid Lindgren, writer

Aung San Suu Kyi, politician

Balkissa Chaibou, activist

Brenda Chapman, Director

The Brontë sisters, writers

Catherine the Great, empress

Cholita Climbers, mountaineers

Claudia Ruggerini, partisan

Cleopatra, Pharaoh

Coco Chanel, fashion designer

Cora Coralina, poet and baker

Coy Mathis, elementary school student

Elizabeth I, Queen

Eufrosina Cruz, activist and politician

Evita Perón, politician

Fadumo Dayib, politician

Florence Nightingale, nurse

Frida Kahlo, painter

Grace Hopper, computer scientist

Grace O'Malley, pirate

Harriet Tubman, Freedom Fighter

Hatshepsut, Pharaoh

Helen Keller, activist

Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate

Hypatia, mathematician and philosopher

Irena Sendlerowa, war hero

Isabel Allende, writer

Jacquotte Delahaye, pirate

Jane Austin, writer

Jane Goodall, primatologist

Jessica Watson, sailor

Jill Tarter, astronomer

Jingū, Empress

Joan Jett, rock star

Julia Child, chef

Kate Sheppard, suffragette

Lakshmi Bai, queen and warrior

Lella Lombardi, Formula One racer

Lozen, warrior

Mae C. Jemison, astronaut and doctor

Malala Yousafzai, activist

Manal Al-Sharif, activist

Margaret Hamilton, computer scientist

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister

Margherita Hack, astrophysicist.

Maria Callas, opera singer

Maria Montessori, physician and educator

Maria Reiche, archaeologist

Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist

Marie Curie, scientist

Mary Anning, paleontologist

Mary Edwards Walker, surgeon

Mary Kom, boxer

Matilde Montoya, doctor

Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist

Maya Angelou, writer

Maya Gabeira, surfer

Melba Liston, trombonist

Michaela Deprince, ballerina

Michelle Obama, lawyer and First Lady

Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, drummer

The Mirabal sisters, activists

Miriam Makeba, activist and singer

Misty Copeland, ballerina

Nancy Wake, spy

Nanny of the Maroons, Queen

Nellie Bly, reporter

Nettie Stevens, geneticist

Nina Simone, singer

Policarpa Salavarrieta, spy

Rita Levi Montalcini, scientist

Rosa Parks, activist

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice

Ruth Harkness, explorer

Seondeok of Silla, Queen

Serena and Venus Williams, tennis players

Simone Biles, gymnast

Sonita Alizadeh, rapper

Sylvia Earle, marine biologist

Tamara de Lempicka, painter

Virginia Woolf, writer

Wang Zhenyi, astronomer

Wangari Maathai, activist

Wilma Rudolph, athlete

Xian Zhang, orchestra conductor

Yaa Asantewaa, warrior queen

Yoko Ono, artist

Yusra Mardini, swimmer

Zaha Hadid, architect.

ISBN:

9780997895810

0997895810

9780141986005

014198600X

9780120420476

0120420473

OCLC:

964819862

Publisher Number:

99987197103