Book Suggestions for Display or Gifts

In Celebration of International Day of the Girl – October 11th (Eleanor’s Birthday)

Heroes

  • 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet by Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe
  • Lives of Extraordinary Women-Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) by K.Krull K. Hewitt

Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber
  • My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
  • Our Eleanor – A Scrapbook Look at ER’s Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming
  • With Love, Aunt Eleanor by Eleanor Roosevelt II
  • Eleanor Roosevelt-An Inspiring Life: by Elizabeth MacLeod
  • TIME Biographies for Kids – “Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the World”
  • Eleanor Roosevelt – A photographic story of a life by Kem Knapp Sawyer
  • Hot Dog!-Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman
  • A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt by David Adler
  • Eleanor Roosevelt – Fighting for Social Justice by Ann Weil
  • A Letter to Ms. Roosevelt by C. Coco de Young
  • Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? By Gare Thompson
  • Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic

Mary McLeod Bethune

  • Mary McLeod Bethune by Susan Evento (Rookie Biographies by Scholastic)
  • Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

International

  • Half the Sky and A Path Appears by N. Kristof & S. WuDunn
  • We Are All Born Free – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures
  • The Trouble with the Alphabet-Through the Eyes of Innocence by Caryn West
  • We Dream of a World by Pershing School in University City, Missouri
  • For Every Child – Rights of the Child in Words & Pictures – text by Carolyn Castle
  • If the World were a Village – A Book about the World’s People by David J. Smith
  • Global Baby – Girls – The Global Fund for Children

Girls

  • My First Book of Girl Power by DC Comics
  • Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards
  • Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
  • Extraordinary Girls by Maya Ajmera, OlatejuOmolodun & Sarah Strunk
  • GIRLS A to Z by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Suzanne Bloom
  • Girls Think of Everything - Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by C.Thimmesh, Illustrated by M. Sweet
  • Girls Who Looked Under Rocks – The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists: by Jeannine Atkins & Paula Conner
  • Girls Who Rocked the World – Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa by M. R. McCann & A.Welden
  • Girls are not Chicks Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell & Julie Novak
  • Rebel in a Dress Adventures by Sylvia Branzei
  • Mia Hamm – Winners Never Quit by Carol Thompson

Strong Female Role Models in Folklore

  • “Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters – Heroines in Folktales from Around the World” by Kathleen Ragan
  • “The Best of Girls to the Rescue – Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World” selected by Bruce Lansky
  • “Fiesta Femenina – Celebrating Women in Mexican Folktale” retold by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez
  • “Princess Smartypants” by Babette Cole
  • “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
  • “The Princess Knight” by Cornelia Funke & Kerstin Meyer
  • “Betsy Who Cried Wolf” by Gail Carson Levine, illustrated by Scott Nash
  • “The Brave Little Seamstress” by Mary Pope Osborne, Illustrated by Giselle Potter

Books about Malala

  • Dear Malala, We Stand with You by Rosemary Mc Carney with Plan International
  • Malala - A Brave Girl from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter
  • MalalaYousafzai – Warrior with Words by Karen L. Abouraya
  • I am Malala – The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by theTaliban by MalalaYousafzai with Christine Lamb
  • I Am Malala – How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young readers Edition) by MalalaYousafzai with Patricia McCormick
  • I am Malala: Support Us in Our Fight by James Lee Anderson