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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: Interview with Melanie Crowder, author of Audacity (Philomel, 2015)

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Monday, March 30, 2015. Interview with Melanie Crowder, author of Audacity (Philomel, 2015). Today's post contributed by Margo Tanenbaum. Radical Jewish women rabble-rousers are getting their due in young people's books in the past few years. After being featured in the 2013 picture book. Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909. By Michelle Markel and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, labor leader Clara Lemlich is now the subject of author Melanie Crowder. Clara Lemlich, 1910. A) Clara is...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: April 2015

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Friday, April 3, 2015. Women's History- it's not just for March! April 3 - Today's post contributed by Margo Tanenbaum. Let's remember these women not only in March, when we celebrate Women's History Month, but throughout the year. Librarians, teachers, authors, parents, and students can advocate to include women in the curriculum all year long, and perhaps we'll see a day when women in history will no longer need their own special month. Posted by Fourth Musketeer. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). March 1 - ...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: March 2014

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Monday, March 31, 2014. Beyond Helen Keller- Women's History for Kids. Graphic from National Women's History Museum). On behalf of Lisa Taylor and myself, thanks for following along for another year of Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month. The women I chose to read picture books about that evening. To name just a few of the figures who were discussed in this year's blog contributions? Posted by Fourth Musketeer. Friday, March 28, 2014. Kate Sessions, The Tree Lady - an artist's perspective. Was a valu...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: Join

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If you are a kidlit blogger, an author of a children’s nonfiction book about an influential woman in history, or an agent of a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching children about Women’s History or Women’s History Month, we invite you to join our KidLit celebration of Women’s History Month! Here are some general guidelines:. Your post should be related to children’s literature and women’s history. Posts by authors of nonfiction children’s books about women are especially welcome. Valarie Budayr (...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: April 2012

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Thank You, Wrap-up, and Giveaway Winner. We've finished another round of Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month. With thirty-one different posts by a wide variety of authors and bloggers celebrating children's books and women's history. Lisa. And, I'm delighted to announce the winners of our two giveaways: selected from a random number generator, our big prize pack of women's history picture books is going to Mia Wenjen, who blogs as Pragmatic Mom. Posted by Fourth Musketeer.

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: November 2011

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Saturday, November 19, 2011. The Women's History Month Celebration continues in 2012. We are pleased to announce that we are in the midst of planning another great celebration for Women's History Month in March, 2012. The inaugural edition of Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month. The 2012 National Women's History Month Theme is. Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment. And we are excited about the year's possibilities. Margo Tanenbaum, The Fourth Musketeer. Lisa Taylor, Shelf-employed. A href="htt...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: Brave Girl: Road to Publication

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Friday, March 15, 2013. Brave Girl: Road to Publication. Today's post contributed by Michelle Markel. My agent sold the manuscript within weeks. I cannot emphasize my joy and astonishment. Melissa Sweet signed on as an illustrator, and brought her storytelling gifts. From the stitching, fabric, and bits of vintage documents, to the blush in Clara’s cheeks, she gives texture, vitality and color to the proceedings. A more beautiful and better world. And The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau. One of Bookl...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: Woman Who Faced Amazing Challenges & Succeeded

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Sunday, March 29, 2015. Woman Who Faced Amazing Challenges and Succeeded. Today's post contributed by Alyson Beecher. Woman Who Faced Amazing Challenges and Succeeded. If you were asked to name a woman in history who made a significant contribution and who also had a disability of some type, who would you name? Has a chapter in a picture book celebrating famous woman and her work with the Cherokee Nation, but did you know she also served in this position while having a rare form of muscular dystrophy?

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: Index

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Books and subjects that have been featured on the site. Each entry links back to its original post). 3 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History : From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the ERA. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women who Changed the World. Art from her Heart. Babe Conquers the World: The Legendary Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Catherine de’ Medici. Catt, Carrie Chapman. Marvel...

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Kidlit Celebrates Women's History Month: The Mother of Trees Wangari Maathai

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Friday, March 27, 2015. The Mother of Trees Wangari Maathai. Today's post contributed by Valarie Budayr. The Mother of Trees Wangari Maathai. 8220; It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”. Photo credit www.nobelprize.org. After learning more about her, I became inspired by her quest to re-forest Kenya with her Green Belt movement. By Franck Prevot and Illustrated by Aurelia Fronty. Where she earned a Masters degree in Biology. Afte...