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trizie81's review against another edition
5.0
Wonderful book. I'm reading it to my kids at nighttime. Must have for girls and women!
merilizabeth's review against another edition
4.0
Man nekad nav paticis lasit garas sausas biografijas, lai gan man pat loti8 interese slavenu cilvkeu sasniegumi un dzives stasti. Un seit kur ir tiesi sievietes un vinu sasniegumi pasniegti ka pasakas ko lasit prieksa berniem es nevaru vien beigt priecaties un baudit. Si ir gramata kas noteikti bus mana plaukta kad man bus mazi berni, jo pat man izlasot gribejas iet un darit un spet paveikt lai ari cik varbut bezcerigi liktos mani sapni. Un makslas darbi gramata ir ne tikai interesanti un neparasti, bet ari loti atsvaidzinosi nemot vera ka lielaka dala bernu gramatu vairs nepilda izglitosanas funkcijas.
This book was all I expected it to be and so so much more. I have always wanted to know more about people who made it their mission to make the world a better place, but in the end I hate reading lenghty and dry and pile of facts biographies. It is just not for me. But like this I enjoyed the small bits of the women who made it. And this book will be one of must have pieces in my children library, if not I will keep it for myself to remind that I can just as they could. And the artwork also is magnificent and not to mention quality work. I am proud I read it.
This book was all I expected it to be and so so much more. I have always wanted to know more about people who made it their mission to make the world a better place, but in the end I hate reading lenghty and dry and pile of facts biographies. It is just not for me. But like this I enjoyed the small bits of the women who made it. And this book will be one of must have pieces in my children library, if not I will keep it for myself to remind that I can just as they could. And the artwork also is magnificent and not to mention quality work. I am proud I read it.
katykelly's review
5.0
One-page fairy tale-esque biographies of women and girls who've made a difference.
I've seen these books advertised, seen them on the shelves, but never felt inclined to try one. Seeing an Audible copy recently released, I thought I'd try it thinking it might be something to share with my boys some day.
The authors have collected stories of inspirational girls and women from countries around the world, a rather impressive list actually - I had heard of less than half of them I would say. Which made it quite fascinating and not just simplified notes on women I'd come across before.
The breadth is admirable too - we have writers and artists, dancers and aviators, scientists and mathematicians, spies and rebels, activists and transgender trailblazers. Listed alphabetically, you could browse or read sequentially, they move backward and forward in time and hop between countries and subjects.
I found it both well put-together and inspiring curiosity. It can't be easy summarising a complicated and very adult life history into one page - Elizabeth I for example, with her parentage, long and eventful reign and influence. The women's important attributes are included, a key quote given where possible and the language used simplifies each story to make it both suitable and accessible for a primary- or secondary-aged readership.
There were many characters here I wanted to find out more about, and I'm sure many children will head to Google/Wikipedia to look up more detail. This is where paper copies are more useful, as I have no idea of the spellings of many of these names, having only heard them once.
I could find no paper materials sent to me that Audible says were sent with the audio files (if anyone knows how to access these, please let me know!), so I'm not sure what extra information/questions they contain.
I loved the idea of the 'fairy tale' structure of these stories up to a point. The 'once there was a girl' repeated each time worked. With 'strong' mentioned regularly, it makes a change from the demure heroines of the traditional fairy tales. But I also kept coming back to the opinion that this also had one flaw. Because of the 'potted history' nature of each history, it does almost seem inevitable and effortless that each achieved what they did, even with mention of hard work - so many overcome adversity without us being able to see just what was involved. A recommendation from me would be to read this in conjunction with Matthew Syed's excellent motivational book for children 'You Are Awesome' which focuses on this very issue and reminds children of the years of toil any of these achievements would have taken.
Parents and teachers would do well to read these one at a time with children, to be able to look up the longer stories between them and digest the cultural importance and influence of each. An audio version I personally feel would not benefit most readers as much as a paper copy would.
I loved the fact that we had multiple readers conveying these stories to us. Narrators from different cultural backgrounds themselves, all very clear and amiable, and helped keep track of different stories as the voices changed for each biography.
With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy.
I've seen these books advertised, seen them on the shelves, but never felt inclined to try one. Seeing an Audible copy recently released, I thought I'd try it thinking it might be something to share with my boys some day.
The authors have collected stories of inspirational girls and women from countries around the world, a rather impressive list actually - I had heard of less than half of them I would say. Which made it quite fascinating and not just simplified notes on women I'd come across before.
The breadth is admirable too - we have writers and artists, dancers and aviators, scientists and mathematicians, spies and rebels, activists and transgender trailblazers. Listed alphabetically, you could browse or read sequentially, they move backward and forward in time and hop between countries and subjects.
I found it both well put-together and inspiring curiosity. It can't be easy summarising a complicated and very adult life history into one page - Elizabeth I for example, with her parentage, long and eventful reign and influence. The women's important attributes are included, a key quote given where possible and the language used simplifies each story to make it both suitable and accessible for a primary- or secondary-aged readership.
There were many characters here I wanted to find out more about, and I'm sure many children will head to Google/Wikipedia to look up more detail. This is where paper copies are more useful, as I have no idea of the spellings of many of these names, having only heard them once.
I could find no paper materials sent to me that Audible says were sent with the audio files (if anyone knows how to access these, please let me know!), so I'm not sure what extra information/questions they contain.
I loved the idea of the 'fairy tale' structure of these stories up to a point. The 'once there was a girl' repeated each time worked. With 'strong' mentioned regularly, it makes a change from the demure heroines of the traditional fairy tales. But I also kept coming back to the opinion that this also had one flaw. Because of the 'potted history' nature of each history, it does almost seem inevitable and effortless that each achieved what they did, even with mention of hard work - so many overcome adversity without us being able to see just what was involved. A recommendation from me would be to read this in conjunction with Matthew Syed's excellent motivational book for children 'You Are Awesome' which focuses on this very issue and reminds children of the years of toil any of these achievements would have taken.
Parents and teachers would do well to read these one at a time with children, to be able to look up the longer stories between them and digest the cultural importance and influence of each. An audio version I personally feel would not benefit most readers as much as a paper copy would.
I loved the fact that we had multiple readers conveying these stories to us. Narrators from different cultural backgrounds themselves, all very clear and amiable, and helped keep track of different stories as the voices changed for each biography.
With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy.
lisas_library_factory's review
4.0
I heard a lot of really good things about this book and was very excited to read it. I guess it is tailored more toward smaller children, because the stories themselves are really simple and sometimes a bit too narrow for my taste. However, it is a really great twist to the classical fairytale and introduces 100 really exciting female biographies, of which the majority was unknown to me. I thus found this book very eye-opening and enriching, even though I would have liked to know even more about the women and their stories.
nuricornbooks's review against another edition
5.0
En verdad no hay mucho que decir, sólo el hecho de que el libro pues trata de una recopilación de muchas mujeres en todo el mundo que han hecho acciones que deben ser recordadas por todos.
Me fascinó en su totalidad. Aprendí y conocí bastantes mujeres que no tenía ni idea de su existencia o de las cosas increíbles que han logrado y no puedo esperar para leer la segunda parte.
Me fascinó en su totalidad. Aprendí y conocí bastantes mujeres que no tenía ni idea de su existencia o de las cosas increíbles que han logrado y no puedo esperar para leer la segunda parte.
miori's review against another edition
4.0
Это могла бы быть идеальная книжка и идеальная история. Посудите сами: 100 вдохновляющих историй о женщинах, проиллюстрированных другими талантливыми женщинами и рассказанных просто и доступно, для детей. Идея, которая превратилась в рекордный по скорости сбора средств проект на краудфаундинговой платформе.
Получилась книга, которую неимоверно приятно держать в руках и, кажется, можно листать бесконечно, разглядывая потрясающие иллюстрации. Идеальный подарок, причем не только для ребенка.
Интересный выбор героинь: авторы включили сюда не только общепризнанных женщин-активисток, политиков, спортсменок, ученых, артисток и т.д., но и совсем молодых и малоизвестных в широких кругах девушек. И их простые и пока только начинающиеся истории во многом оказались даже более интересными и воодушевляющими, в том числе за счет чувства новизны.
Однако сами сказки немного подкачали. Лично я виню в этом формат "1 страница - 1 сказка". Для некоторых историй этого действительно хватало, но большинству хотелось дать больше пространства, чтобы связно рассказать историю, не комкая ее. А так глаз и мозг спотыкался о скомканность вроде: "жила-была девочка, она была очень умной и любила математику. А в N лет она стала спортсменкой".
Тем не менее, и идея, и реализация пусть и не идеальные, но потрясающие. Однозначно буду перелистывать эту книгу, рассматривая иллюстрации и перечитывая отдельные истории. Когда-то, возможно, и своим детям.
Получилась книга, которую неимоверно приятно держать в руках и, кажется, можно листать бесконечно, разглядывая потрясающие иллюстрации. Идеальный подарок, причем не только для ребенка.
Интересный выбор героинь: авторы включили сюда не только общепризнанных женщин-активисток, политиков, спортсменок, ученых, артисток и т.д., но и совсем молодых и малоизвестных в широких кругах девушек. И их простые и пока только начинающиеся истории во многом оказались даже более интересными и воодушевляющими, в том числе за счет чувства новизны.
Однако сами сказки немного подкачали. Лично я виню в этом формат "1 страница - 1 сказка". Для некоторых историй этого действительно хватало, но большинству хотелось дать больше пространства, чтобы связно рассказать историю, не комкая ее. А так глаз и мозг спотыкался о скомканность вроде: "жила-была девочка, она была очень умной и любила математику. А в N лет она стала спортсменкой".
Тем не менее, и идея, и реализация пусть и не идеальные, но потрясающие. Однозначно буду перелистывать эту книгу, рассматривая иллюстрации и перечитывая отдельные истории. Когда-то, возможно, и своим детям.
barnesbookshelf's review against another edition
3.0
I did quite enjoy this book, especially how a lot of the entries are from more modern women, as in they lived within the last 300 years. There were lots of women I didn't know in addition to the more famous ones I did know, and I was surprised at some of the actually modern (as in still living or recently deceased) women who were included. I'm not sure I've seen many other books of this type include so many living women, so that was a nice inclusion. I also loved how each woman got a full-page artwork, even though I feel some of the artwork isn't as flattering as others are. This is definitely a great book for young kids, so parents, check it out!