Must-read for all children. And adults. Whatever gender you are, whether you are born into it or are deciding or transitioning, we all must remember the important women in history and how they changed the world. And there are so, so many of them. Please not let their dreams, hard work and sacrifices be ignored or heaven forbid deliberately erased. No wonder sexism still exists if we never learn about women such as these in schools.
Well, 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' was created to rectify that.
I was hooked from page one, reading and learning about a hundred women and girls - past and present - simply living their dreams and achieving their goals. I even nearly missed work because of it! Young (like ten years old) and old, the girls are brilliant. They are not really rebels, they are just living; they dare to be ambitious and never give up.
Women matter so much - why is this still debated? What reason, what evidence, what decency is there that suggests they are not as good as any man? With over 7 billion people on earth right now surely half of that - half of all those individual, complex humanities - can't be considered entirely worthless or deserving of scorn and ridicule simply for existing.
My only grievance with 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' is the lack of inclusion of women such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Janet Reno, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, Princess Diana, J.K. Rowling, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Lee, and Shonda Rhimes. But the more obscure women included who helped change the world make up for that. Taking charge of their own lives, they are leaders. There are even a few pirate ladies here!
'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' - these are no fairy tales. These are real women, as ordinary as anyone, who lived extraordinary lives. Inspirational doesn't begin to cut it. Whether or not you have children, read it to anyone, and to yourself. We owe it to the overlooked women of history, and of the present.
Here's to the awesome girls of the future, who will never be stopped.
Final Score: 5/5
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