Women's History Month
Celebrating the accomplishments of women throughout history and present day.
1.
Night Flight
Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
By: Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by: Wendell Minor
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 22, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
Award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. She was only the second person to do this – and the first woman. Rich in detail, feeling and incident this...
Other Formats: eBook
2.
Jeannette Rankin
First Lady of Congress
By: Trish Marx
Illustrated by: Dan Andreasen
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2006
Ages: 7 - 10
I've been trying to help women have better lives, using the laws we already have. But what if the laws are wrong, or don't go far enough?"
So was the thinking of Jeannette Rankin before she decided to run for Congress,...
3.
Keep Climbing, Girls
By: Beah E. Richards
Illustrated by: R. Gregory Christie / Introduction by: LisaGay Hamilton
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 3, 2006
Ages: 4 - 8
The only way to make a bid
for a girl's equality is to climb right up to the
toppermost bough
of the very tallest tree.
The dynamic ode to girl power was written by noted Afro-American actor, poet, and playwright Beach E....
