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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls : 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women - Rebel Girls

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

100 Tales of Extraordinary Women

By: Rebel Girls, Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo

Hardcover | 10 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

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"What if the princess did not marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut or an activist? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the kingdom?

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to one hundred remarkable women and their extraordinary lives. From Marie Curie to Malala, Ada Lovelace to Zaha Hadid, this book brings together the stories of scientists, artists, politicians, pirates and spies. Each double-page spread contains a mini-biography written in the style of a modern fairy tale and a full-page portrait capturing the spirit of each heroine, by one of the sixty female artists from across the globe who were commissioned to illustrate the book.

Powerful, moving and very necessary, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girl will inspire and delight readers of all ages."

About the Author

Elena Favilli is a media entrepreneur and a journalist. She has worked for Colors magazine, McSweeney's, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica, and has managed digital newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2011, she created the first iPad magazine for children, Timbuktu magazine. She is the founder and CEO of Timbuktu Labs.

Francesca Cavallo is a writer and theatre director. Her award-winning plays have been staged all across Europe. A passionate social innovator, Francesca is the founder of Sferracavalli, an International Festival of Sustainable Imagination in Southern Italy. In 2011, Francesca joined forces with Elena Favilli to found Timbuktu Labs, where she serves as Creative Director.
Industry Reviews

"Reading can inspire you to do great things-what a great gift for a preteen! This series features boundary-breaking women and includes stories about some who have moved me the most-like Toni Morrison. They even included me!" - Oprah says on OprahDaily.com

"I hope this beautiful book will continue to inspire girls to set high goals for themselves-because you don't need to be an adult to change the world." - Malala Yousafzai


"This amazing book shows young girls they can be anything they want." - Melinda Gates

"When I want to impart the message to my daughter that she can aspire to anything, be whoever she needs to be, the opinions of others be damned, this book becomes an inspiration." - The Guardian

"The anti-princess book teaching girls to rebel." - BBC News

"A welcome reminder to girls that nothing stands in their way - except a lack of self-belief. This book started as a crowd-funded project and has become a best-seller which is the best news of the year." - Daily Mail

"Elegant, colourful... and captivatingly told... In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to daughters, but teachers would read it to schoolboys." - Sunday Times

"A must-have for the nightstand of every girl or young woman you know." - Forbes

"Modern and fundamentally feminist, this riot grrrl reinvention of the fairytale is so inspiring adults are also reading it in droves." - i Newspaper

"You have to buy it for the little ones in your lives, but you also need a copy for your grown-up bookshelf... There is serious girl power between the covers of this book." - Bustle

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Kids & Children's BooksChildren's Non-FictionWork, Politics & Society for Children & TeenagersHistory & The Past for Children & TeenagersPlaces & People for Children & TeenagersScience & Technology for Children & TeenagersChildren & Teenage Fiction: True Stories Told As Fiction

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