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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Hardcover – January 1, 2016
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- Print length212 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.28 x 0.79 x 9.84 inches
- PublisherElena Favilli
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2016
- ISBN-10014198600X
- ISBN-13978-0141986005
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Product details
- Publisher : Elena Favilli; First Edition (January 1, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 212 pages
- ISBN-10 : 014198600X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141986005
- Reading age : 4 - 9 years, from customers
- Item Weight : 2.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.28 x 0.79 x 9.84 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #363,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Francesca Cavallo is an Italian author living in Los Angeles.
She is the bestselling author of the "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" book series. Her books sold more than 4 million copies and have been translated into 50 languages. Francesca launched the two most successful crowdfunding campaigns in the history of publishing and has created the #RebelGirls movement in 2016.
Francesca is an activist and an entrepreneur at the forefront of the fight for gender equality and LGBTQA representation in children's media.
Her latest book, "Elves on the Fifth Floor" is a revolutionary Christmas tale starring a biracial family with two moms and three kids. It was released in Italy in November 2019 and it became an instant bestseller.
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ELENA FAVILLI is an NYT bestselling author, journalist, and breaker of glass ceilings. Elena is the founder and CCO of Rebel Girls, a media company dedicated to inspiring the next generation of brave and confident girls. In 2016, she co-wrote and published the most crowdfunded literary project in history, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, now translated into nearly 50 languages. She has written for the Guardian, Vogue, COLORS magazine, McSweeney’s, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Lafayette, a Bracco Italiano.
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international best-selling children’s book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography, and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders, and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with 6 million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads.
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We read this book at bed time.
My daughter used the book to select her inventor for a school project where she studied, the dressed up and acted out being Grace Hopper.
We bought the second book.
And now we bought more copies of this book, as gifts for some of her friends' (8/9 birthdays, etc.)
It's amazing how frequently we are watching a movie or such and my daughter will yell something like "Joan Jett/May Angelou/Ruth Bader Ginsberg...she's in my Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls book!"
Having said that, there was one entry we skipped over as I think it is very inappropriate for my daughter (not to mention the even younger readers who according to these reviews are reading). The book draws from more of a leftest cast rather than highlighting some likely candidates who were pioneers or achieved greatly but perhaps not according to the current in vogue view of "correctness." This leads to some interesting choices: Hillary Clinton but not Condolezza Rice; Ruth Bader Ginzburg but not the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'connor; no mention of Golda Meir. In fairness, Margaret Thatcher has an entry but her paragraphs include a line that "she wanted to take school lunches away from kids." Really. Also, the business sector is largely ignored. There are a lot of women entrepreneurs and business leaders who would be great examples for girls in our (still!) market economy.
All in all I am glad I bought it. However, the book could have been a broader example set had were it less biased.
I brought the book to our Daisy Girl Scout troop meeting where they earned a badge about being courageous and strong. We started by playing Bold Maid (which I also recommend). Someone asked who Amelia Earhart was. My daughter grabbed the book and started reading her page! Then another girl wanted to read a page out loud! And two other girls wanted the book themselves! This book was a big hit for 5-7 year olds!
During the troop meeting, the book and Bold Maid game prompted conversations about what world leaders like Angela Merkel do and how did Helen Keller walk around school if she was blind and deaf. The girls shared personal stories of how they got back up on their bikes or skates when they fell, and joined a t-ball team even though they were nervous. The meeting was a big hit! The book is awesome!
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