Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo

Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world.

This must-have volume brings readers on an empowering journey, introducing them to the real-life adventures of trailblazing women from Elizabeth I to Malala Yousafzai. The unique narrative style of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls transforms each biography into a fairytale, filling readers with wonder and a burning curiosity to know more about each hero. Each woman's story is also accompanied by a full-page, full-color portrait that captures her rebel spirit.

This hardcover edition, with an extra-smooth matte scuff-free lamination, 100lbs paper, a satin ribbon bookmark, and extraordinary print quality, is the perfect gift for any young reader, and begs to be read again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997895810
Publisher:	Rebel Girls
Publication date:	11/10/2016
Series:	Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Series , #1
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	10,277
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 11.70(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	880L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

ELENA FAVILLI is an NYT bestselling author, journalist, and breaker of glass ceilings. Elena is the founder and CCO of Rebel Girls, a media company dedicated to inspiring the next generation of brave and confident girls. In 2016, she co-wrote and published the most crowdfunded literary project in history, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, now translated into nearly 50 languages. She has written for the Guardian, Vogue, COLORS magazine, McSweeney’s, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica. She lives in Los Angeles.

Francesca Cavallo is an award-winning writer and theater director. She lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

"Reading can inspire you to do great things—what a great gift for a preteen! This series features boundary-breaking women and includes stories about some who have moved me the most—like Toni Morrison. They even included me!" — Oprah says on OprahDaily.com

"I hope this beautiful book will continue to inspire girls to set high goals for themselves—because you don't need to be an adult to change the world." — Malala Yousafzai

"This amazing book shows young girls they can be anything they want." — Melinda Gates

"When I want to impart the message to my daughter that she can aspire to anything, be whoever she needs to be, the opinions of others be damned, this book becomes an inspiration." — The Guardian

"The anti-princess book teaching girls to rebel." — BBC News

"A welcome reminder to girls that nothing stands in their way - except a lack of self-belief. This book started as a crowd-funded project and has become a best-seller which is the best news of the year." — Daily Mail

"Elegant, colourful... and captivatingly told... In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to daughters, but teachers would read it to schoolboys." — Sunday Times

"A must-have for the nightstand of every girl or young woman you know." — Forbes

"Modern and fundamentally feminist, this riot grrrl reinvention of the fairytale is so inspiring adults are also reading it in droves." — i Newspaper

"You have to buy it for the little ones in your lives, but you also need a copy for your grown-up bookshelf... There is serious girl power between the covers of this book." — Bustle

From the Publisher

"This amazing book shows young girls they can be anything they want."

Melinda Gates

"A welcome reminder to girls that nothing stands in their way - except a lack of self-belief. This book started as a crowd-funded project and has become a best-seller which is the best news of the year."

Daily Mail

"Reading can inspire you to do great things—what a great gift for a preteen! This series features boundary-breaking women and includes stories about some who have moved me the most—like Toni Morrison. They even included me!"

Oprah says on OprahDaily.com

"You have to buy it for the little ones in your lives, but you also need a copy for your grown-up bookshelf... There is serious girl power between the covers of this book."

Bustle

"A must-have for the nightstand of every girl or young woman you know."

Forbes

"The anti-princess book teaching girls to rebel."

BBC News

"Elegant, colourful... and captivatingly told... In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to daughters, but teachers would read it to schoolboys."

Sunday Times

"Modern and fundamentally feminist, this riot grrrl reinvention of the fairytale is so inspiring adults are also reading it in droves."

i Newspaper

"I hope this beautiful book will continue to inspire girls to set high goals for themselves—because you don't need to be an adult to change the world."

Malala Yousafzai

"When I want to impart the message to my daughter that she can aspire to anything, be whoever she needs to be, the opinions of others be damned, this book becomes an inspiration."

The Guardian

"A welcome reminder to girls that nothing stands in their way - except a lack of self-belief. This book started as a crowd-funded project and has become a best-seller which is the best news of the year."

Daily Mail

03/01/2017
Gr 3–6—Packaged as a "heartwarming and thought-provoking" bedtime selection, this offering aims to inspire readers with brief biographies of notable women. As an introductory text, the volume is a browsable resource that promotes a multifaceted view of womanhood: scientists and supermodels are presented alongside activists and athletes. But as a collection of biographies, it lacks depth. Each entry is a single page in length, with the subject's birth (and death, when applicable) date at the bottom of the page. Relevant details are often omitted, eliminating context from accomplishments: an entry on the Brontë sisters includes talk of "when [their] novels came out," without mentioning what these influential novels were or in what year they were published. The entry on Malala Yousafzai does not specify at what age she was shot or when she won the Nobel Peace Prize—only that she is the youngest person to have been awarded it. However, a note on the title page verso states that "this is a work of creative nonfiction…not an encyclopedic account of events and accomplishments of [the subjects'] lives." Full-color portraits, illustrated by a number of artists, add visual interest. VERDICT Though inspirational, this book will be of little use to school libraries.—Brandy Danner, Coakley Middle School, Norwood, MA

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