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Women in History - March Is Women’s History Month
For more information about this very special celebration of women please visit the National Women’s History Project website. To look at reviews of books related to this topic please visit the following pages:
Elizabeth Blackwell: America’s First Woman Doctor
Trina Robbins
Illustrated by Cynthia Martin and Anne Timmons
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 6 to 9
Capstone Press, 2007, 0-7368-6497-0
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
Kathryn Lasky
Illustrated by Nneka Bennett
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 8 to 12
Candlewick Press, 2000, 0-7636-1834-9
Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America
Kathi Appelt
Illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
HarperCollins, 2005, 0-06-001107-6
Through Georgia’s Eyes
Rachel Rodriguez
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis
Non-Fiction
Ages 4 to 8
Henry Holt, 2006, 0-8050-7740-5
Call me Marianne
Jen Bryant
Pictures by David A. Johnson
Non-Fiction and Fiction Biography
Ages 6 to 8
Eerdmans, 2006, 0-8028-5242-4
Chico: A True Story from the Childhood of the First Woman Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
Illustrated by Dan Andreasen
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 8
Penguin, 2005, 0-525-47452-8
Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
Susanna Reich
Non-Fiction
Ages 9 to 12
Clarion, 1999, 0-618-55160-3
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden
Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 10 to 12
Lerner, 1990, 0-8225-4905-0
Fannie in the Kitchen
Deborah Hopkinson
Pictures by Nancy Carpenter
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 5 to 7
Simon and Schuster, 2001, 0-689-81965-X
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
Emily Arnold McCully
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, 0-374-34810-3
Born to be a cowgirl: A Spirited ride through the old West
Candace Savage
Non-Fiction
Ages 8 to 12
Tricycle Press, 2001, 1-58246-020-5
Legends of the West: Calamity Jane
Sara Gilbert
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
The Creative Company, 2006, 1-58341-338-3
Mother Jones: Labor Leader
Connie Colwell Miller
Illustrated by Steve Erwin and Charles Barnett III
Non-Fiction Picture Book (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Capstone Press, 2007, 0-7368-3833-3
Amelia to Zora: Twenty Six women who changed the world
Cynthia Chin-Lee
Illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
Charlesbridge, 2005, 1-57091-522-9
Different Like Coco
Elizabeth Matthews
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 9
Candlewick Press, 2007, 978-0-7636-2548-1
Jane Goodall, Animal Scientist
Katherine Krohn
Illustrated by Cynthia Martin and Anne Timmons
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Capstone Press, 2006, 0-7368-5485-1
Dolley Madison Saves History
Roger Smalley
Illustrated by Anna Maria Cool, Scoot Rosema and Charles Burnett III
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 6 to 9
Capstone Press, 2006, 0-7368-4972-6
Women of Hope: African Americans who made a difference
Joyce Hansen
Non-Fiction
Ages 9 to 12
Scholastic, 2007, 0-590-93974-2
Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women
Cheryl Harness
Non-fiction Picture Book
Ages 8 and up
HarperTrophy, 2001, 0-06-443869-4
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