Bold Women in History: 15 Women's Rights Activists You Should Know (Biographies for Kids)

How exciting to received an advance copy of this book from the publisher. As a mother of two girls, I found this to be very telling for young women. Even though it is for ages 8 to 12, I found it a very good read for any age. Honestly before reading this I had only heard of 4 of the 15 women in the book. It was great to read about the lives of others that I knew nothing about. My favorites were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary McLeod Bethune and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Loved how the author gave directions for additional information if the reader wanted to know more in the 'Explore More!' and 'Did You Know?' sections.

When reading this with kids, the bold words make for great discussion and to discuss all walks of life trying to achieve one item – women’s equal rights. With such a variety of women represented, they all somehow seemed hooked together. With the additional references given at the end of each chapter, it makes it easy to continue growth on that particular one that truly interests you as a reader. Meghan took time and came out with a well thought out book that can give students people to look up to and try to achieve to be like!

My 11 year old daughter loves this book. She devoured it in a single sitting and asked lots of good questions. It highlights all of the brave women that paved the way for women's rights. She happened to have been learning about Rosa Parks in school which was good timing. Great book.

Bold Women in History is a beautiful and bright book for young readers. The author did a great job of highlighting the important facts from these women's lives and telling their stories in short chapters. It is written in a very conversational and easy-to-follow tone.I especially like how many of the women in this book were connected to each other, and that is mentioned where applicable but is never redundant. Some of these women all lived around the same time and even KNEW EACH OTHER, so showing how these stories are related really brings history alive to me.I love the "Explore More" and "Did You Know?" excerpts at the end of each woman's story as well. I think these are great details for those who are interested in going deeper and a great way to incorporate some exciting/random facts. A lot of these grabbed my attention, and I learned a few things that I didn't know!This would be a great book for teachers to use in their classroom one chapter at a time for a unit study and also a great book for young readers to read through at their own pace for an extra dose of history.*Thank you to the publisher for providing me an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a decent overview of some important female activists. This book includes a full color portrait and a 5 page biography of 15 different female activists. There is good diversity in both race and profession of the women featured. The biographies in this book include: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren, Alice Paul, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Betty Friedan, Ruth Vader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Bell Hooks, and Stacey Abrams. The biographies are short, and don't go into much detail, but they provide a good jumping off point to learn more. I like that they include ideas for how to learn more about the different women, but some of the suggestions are more realistic than others. Web-links are doable, visiting a university in Florida, not so much. I wish there were further reading selections for each woman as well. My 7 year old enjoyed this book, but she wanted more information about all of the women. Okay as an overview, but it's definitely a starting point rather than a comprehensive biography.

This is an easy to read, engaging, collection of profiles on female activists in history.As the quote "The leaders of the equal rights movement refused to let women in." shows, the author notes the ironies of the time, and the internal conflicts faced by organizations around the time of the civil war and reconstruction when equality was being argued for on both the racial and gender fronts.Overall, I really like this book, the writing style is interesting, engaging, and the tone is just right for kids, not talking down to them... teaching them new concepts and words in a manner that doesn't frustrate.I do wish the introduction didn't imply only girls/women were reading this book. Boys need to learn about this part of history too... need to be aware there was a time when their mother couldn't have owned property, etc.

“Bold Women in History” a history book for kids, contains the biography of 15 women’s rights activists of the nineteenth and twentieth century that kids should know about, what they did and its impacts. The book’s goal is to inspire kids, boys and girls, to embolden their courage, work hard, develop skills, and strive to be all thy can be and, like the 15 women, help to improve society. Among the 15 are Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Gloria Steinem. The book contains an inspiring quote in each chapter, tells where the reader can get more information about the woman mentioned in the chapter, and each chapter ends with a short discussion called “Did you Know” where the author tells readers some significant and interesting information.

Learn about the lives of 15 Women’s Right ActivistsThe book contains the stories of 15 Women’s Right Activists. Some women included in the book are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It also includes more contemporary activists such as Ruth Bader Ginsbury and Stacey Abrams. After each activist there is a section of Explore More where you can get more information about that activist, and a Did You Know, which gives you a fact that you may not know about. In the back there is a glossary of terms that were used in the book. The words in the glossary are usually in bold type within the story. There is also a list of references used to write the book.