Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World

Este libro es una maravilla mi hija lo tiene en español, este lo compré para usarlo en mis clases con mi alumnado de inglés para trabajar el tema de la Igualdad y les ha encantado.

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.

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!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀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.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀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 read a few picture books or chapters of our read aloud, we’d open to these spreads and each girl would pick and animal or woman to read about that day. By now, we’ve read most of these stories and revisited many of them multiple times.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀But even better? The girls have independently started to use these two books as reference books! The other day, when reading The One and Only Ivan, we read about a boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure in a zoo and was saved by one of the gorillas. My older daughter ran to get Wildlives to read us the true story of Benti Jua, the gorilla who did rescue a boy at the Brookfield Zoo in 1996!

Love this book! Absolutely amazing for kids.I bought this book to read with my six-year-old niece. The language is a bit complex for independent reading/understanding so I changed up the wording a little bit as I read to her. She loves it!The illustrations are amazing, the stories are inspiring. It has lots of adventurous and interesting information not just for girls, but for all children. Many of the stories are good opportunities to introduce and discuss difficult but important subjects, all while teaching children about history and the many privileges that they get to experience as a result of the courage and sacrifice made by many individuals.As a professional who's worked with children for over seven years, I give this book a 5/5Not only for the book itself, but for the great conversations that result from it.Teachers, therapists, counsellors, parents & everyone, buy this book. And not just for the girls!

Birthday present for my 15 year old sister. I wanted an inspirational book with a feminist theme and knew she wouldn’t read a typical non fiction or essay style book. She loves art though and this book is so beautiful I’m sure it will keep her attention. It’s informative but in an easy to understand way and I love that it features women of all colours, eras and occupations (not just scientists, there are creatives in there too).I enjoyed flicking through it before I wrapped it up and I’d definitely recommend it as a gift for young girls.