Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Herstory

In honor of Women's History Month, this installment of the Subversive Children's Book Club features books about herstory, which we do not learn enough of in our schools thanks to bodies like the Texas State Board of Education with its love of curricula featuring Dead White Guys Only.  We can find herstory without textbooks when we have to, though.  We can even make it.  Enjoy.


Books About Herstory for Kids

• Cool Women: The Thinking Girl’s Guide to the Hippest Women in History By Pam Nelson
• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
• The Ballot Box Battle By Emily Arnold McCully
• Dolores Huerta:  A Hero To Migrant Workers By Sarah E. Warren
• You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer By Shana Corey
• The Librarian of Basra  By Jeannette Winter
• Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride By Pam Munoz Ryan
• The Value of Friendship: The Story of Jane Addams By Ann Donegan Johnson
• Wangari's Trees of Peace By Jeannette Winter
• Rare Treasure: Mary Anning And Her Remarkable Discoveries By Don Brown
• Maria’s Comet By Deborah Hopkinson
• Almost Astronauts:  13 Women Who Dared To Dream By Tanya Lee Stone