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reading_rainrho's review against another edition
3.0
A very watered down brief overview of some of the baddest chicks to have ever lived. This would’ve been so much better if the chapters would’ve been fleshed out a bit more.
ssione55's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting introduction to many of the "bad girls" throughout history. Not much historical context, more like very short synopses of their lives and actions, with little graphics on the pages between chapters. Those were actually my favorite bits, because they included conversations between the authors (mother and daughter) about the complexities surrounding historical categorization of actions into "bad" or "good". Overall, I'd recommend to readers 10-16.
tesch18's review against another edition
4.0
OK book. More of a middle-school level, but still rather interesting.
hallowmas's review against another edition
4.0
This is a nice quick read that opens the door on learning about some of history's greatest women. Each chapter gives a nice introduction to a selected woman.
amageske's review against another edition
3.0
Illustrations of our bad girls are fuego, I want those as wallpaper in my work space. Each chapter features a different bad girl from history, gives the deets of her devious behavior, and reminds us that the world isn't kind in narratives around women, alive or dead. I wish there was a different method for reiterating the debate portion of these tales besides the comic after each chapter - those felt self-indulgent and had me cringing.
claudiaswisher's review against another edition
4.0
"Well-behaved women don't make history," or so the saying goes. Well, these women DID make history. Spies, murderers, bank robbers, mobster molls, cowgirls, pirates. They're all here.
For me the biggest surprise was Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner...or Roxie and Velma, of CHICAGO fame. I didn't know these two characters were based on real women, or that there was a stage play CHICAGO long before the musical...loved how their stories contributed to the play.
THis isn't a true graphic novel...the only pages with traditional panels are the pages at the end of each short biography of a bad girl. The two authors, Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple, Yolen's daughter, debate the badness of each of their characters after the story. One must have read the 2-3 page biographies in order to get the jokes and the patter. I loved how those pages let us see the mother-daughter relationship.
The illustrations are yummy and really contribute to the whole.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about these women, who did make history
For me the biggest surprise was Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner...or Roxie and Velma, of CHICAGO fame. I didn't know these two characters were based on real women, or that there was a stage play CHICAGO long before the musical...loved how their stories contributed to the play.
THis isn't a true graphic novel...the only pages with traditional panels are the pages at the end of each short biography of a bad girl. The two authors, Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple, Yolen's daughter, debate the badness of each of their characters after the story. One must have read the 2-3 page biographies in order to get the jokes and the patter. I loved how those pages let us see the mother-daughter relationship.
The illustrations are yummy and really contribute to the whole.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about these women, who did make history
erine's review against another edition
2.0
This would be great for an introduction to any one of the 26 infamous women in these pages, but my biggest complaint is simply that it left me wanting So. Much. More. Each chapter on a woman is alternated with a short graphic page with author commentary in which Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi Stemple debate the relative goodness/badness of their subjects and hint at tantalizing research journeys. I wanted more on the women, and I wanted more author commentary. I thought both pieces of this book were tantalizing, but ultimately unfulfilling.
These are bad girls. Book discusses murder, adultery, and other crime.
These are bad girls. Book discusses murder, adultery, and other crime.
destiny_jay's review against another edition
1.0
I’m seriously disappointed. I thought it was going to go more into all these women but instead I got surface level reasons on why society considered them ‘bad’.
delz's review against another edition
4.0
Is she good, guilty or bad? When using today’s standards against historical standards would the women in this book still be considered the Bad Girls they were in history? That’s the question our authors are posing to the reader. It makes these women in history even more interesting and it’s a great jumping off point for a young adult who’s just starting research.