Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Hardcover – January 1, 2016

Fantastic book. So many outstanding women are profiled, many that aren’t often in the spotlight. Great gift for any young girl but also a good book for boys to read & be aware of the accomplishments of women as well. Beautifully illustrated, nicely bound.

This book is awesome! I got it for my daughter's 7th birthday. We read a few stories at bedtime together. It was extra special because it started us talking about different things that happened to the women we read about. We ended up on YouTube listening to songs and interviews and talking about how she felt about them. She loved it so much she begged for me to leave the book with her and the light on so she could read more by herself. I would say this book isn't just for girls and women, but for anyone who wants to hear about women doing great or interesting things. Each bio is a page long and written in a way that's pretty easy for a young child to follow. Each page is accompanied by a beautiful portrait of the woman with a quote attributed to them. The portraits are unique to each woman, with no two sharing the exact same artistic style. Each portrait seems to capture the essence of the woman in some way. Don't expect it to be an in-depth bio of each person, but rather an overview or highlight inviting you to research more on your own if you are interested. It also covers quite the spectrum of ladies and from all walks of life - ballerinas, activists, pirates, tattoo artists, authors, astronomers, etc.

We gave this to our 7 year old grand-daughter. I was so proud to give it to her to let her read and to be read to---about so many amazing, creative, talented, determined women.It is a beautiful book and a keeper for a life time.

This is such a cool book. I had no idea there was an app that accompanies the book. We loved the longer versions of the stories. Definitely would recommend for anyone with preteen/teen girl. I wish there was one for boys too.

Perfect read for the rebel girl in training. Engaging and immersive.

This is an excellent choice for young readers and is also a lot of fun if you are teaching a young person to read. I have two 4 year old nieces who are not yet reading on their own, but they love having these stories read to them and they love the beautiful and creative illustrations of each woman or girl featured.I have learned a lot even I didn't know from reading this book to them. I love that it is instilling them with the awareness that women and girls have done important and critical work throughout time, all over the world. I feel confident that this is setting them up to be critical thinkers later on in life when they will likely encounter history classes that will only tell them what men in history have done.This book is very nicely put together. It is good and heavy with a heavy duty wipe-clean exterior finish. The interior bookplate sheet is especially nice if you are planning to give this as a gift, as I did. It also includes a ribbon bookmark to help little people find where they left off. I would absolutely recommend this book for all young children.

Men and boys have a lot of stories about brave, strong, good, and kind heroes to emulate. Girls and women need more of them. Yes, most girls will grow up to be women who marry and raise children, but they don't have to if they want to do something else. They can be scientists, doctors, warriors, healers, leaders, and more.There were a few selections I found objectionable. For example, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of the UK. It was noted that she was the first female PM, but she got a great deal of criticism for cutting school food programs for poor kids – and rightfully so. Making kids go hungry is a terrible thing for a leader to choose to do! And the authors noted that she was lauded for winning the Falklands War. But I wonder how much Thatcher's reputation would have been repaired had the Argentineans decided not to invade, but instead peacefully transfer power to the civilian leaders.Coco Chanel is another I have issues with. Yes, she made an impact in the fashion world. But after WW2, she was reviled by the French because she had collaborated with the Germans. This facetious argument is made in the Harry Potter books when Ollivander tells Harry that Voldemort did great things; they were terrible, but they were also great. To me, there is a serious distinction between being famous and infamous and murdering families is not something that should be emulated by anyone. Being cruel, murderous, wiping out families, de-populating towns, or stealing from others is a choice, and one can achieve greatness without stepping on others to get there.Another one I found extremely objectionable was the painting of Cleopatra as a black woman. There are plenty of black queens to study and research, women worthy of being highlighted in modern media. Cleopatra was Macedonian, a part of the Ptolemy Dynasty; they were Greek in origin, and they did NOT intermarry with the locals. Indeed, Cleopatra was the first in that dynasty who knew how to speak Egyptian used by the everyday citizenry. ALL of the Roman frescoes show Cleopatra as white, and the coins show her with a prominent Greek nose. That is historical revisionism of the worst sort. Attempts by misguided apologists seeking a famous black woman to highlight on television did not do right by changing Cleopatra into a black woman. The director admitted that she deliberately made Cleopatra black to incite controversy and chose NOT to be historically accurate. The evidence that Cleopatra was black is simply not there, and besides the many classical Greek and Roman scholars who have protested this fallacy, Egyptian scholars have also weighed in, saying Cleopatra was white. It is telling that the only argument that supporters of this decidedly fringe idea have in response is to attack the character of the others, and they do that because they cannot defend their fringe belief with historical evidence.I applaud the aim of this book, which is to collect stories of famous women who stand out, to show girls and young women that if they have a dream, they should pursue it. Nearly all of those women presented are worthy of study and can be seen as pathfinders. A little judicious selection of people who started out as shining stars but then took questionable turns diminishes entire the project. Each single-page story skims over so much detail, that is the cases of Thatcher and Coco, it comes off as attempting to gloss over misdeeds simply because they were first or famous. Cleopatra and the others deserve their stories to be truthful, not wish-fulfillment fantasies, and the lack of academic scholarship is troubling.For those interested in the book, this is an opportunity to study with your daughter or niece and see if the person presented is someone worthy of venerating.There are plenty of women warriors that were not selected. Ever heard of the Three Musketeers? How about Jule d"Aubigny? During the time of Louis 169, the Sun King, she a famous opera singer, actress, and a terror with fisticuffs and the epeé sword. Extra Credits: History on YouTube has an excellent video about her life.How about Tomyris, Queen of Massagetae? Cyrus the Great of Persia offered her marriage, sending gifts and barrels of wine to her. She refused marriage, knowing Cyrus would simply add her lands to his and never share power. In the first battle, the son of Tomyris was killed, and in a rage, she called up all other people, and by cunning strategy, destroyed the Persian army. Two and a half thousand years later, across the steppes of Uzbekistan and Kazakstan, the name of Tomyris the Queen is still spoken with reverence.Sharpshooter Annie Oakley? Martha Jane Canary aka Calamity Jane? Bessie Coleman, the first black pilot? Valentina Tereshkova? Sally Ride? Judy Resnick? Christa McAuliffe? We need more stories of rebel girls, and there are plenty of fierce and determined women out there without the taint of questionable ethics to choose from. There are plenty of men afraid of sharing the limelight already without muddying the waters, and I say this as a man. I sincerely hope that future volumes, which we need! – use greater care in those selected.

WONDERFUL BOOK! I bought this for my niece as a Christmas present, but I fell in love with it myself. This is the kind of reading material all girls need.