Nonfiction Monday - Remember the Ladies

Is this Women's History Month?
If not it should be.  In fact, every month should be women's history month because our history blends with all the men's history in the history books.

Harness, Cheryl. Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

            (Collective Biography grades 3-5)  

My first reaction to this book was being blown away by all the illustrations, done by the author and carefully inserted into the text, which so accurately portray important women in the history of the United States.

           Written in an informal, storytelling style, Harness includes Native Americans (Sarah Winnemucca), African Americans (Ida Bell Wells-Barnett), and Hispanic (Antonia Novello) and intersperses her short biographies with paragraphs of historical events (bicycles in the 1890s/ the Great War ending in 1918).  (I happen to be related to number ten – Margaret Corbin.) 

Eight pages of back matter extend the information and adds more. 

A wonderful book to spend hours pouring over for information, and incidentally, the changes in fashions of dress.

Women's History Month

March already.
I spent the last week(s) getting my taxes ready for the accountant, and now that's done. (whew)

All of a sudden, It's March.
And March is Women's History Month.

During March, click on over to the Kidlit Celebrates blog, where they are Celebrating Women's History month with essays from well known women about the 2013 National Women's History Project theme of Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Now in its third consecutive year, the blog was founded by two librarians and brings together distinguished authors and illustrators of books related to women's history with librarians and bloggers from across North America. 

Each day features a new essay, commentary or review by some of the most noted writers in the field of literature for young people. Contributors for 2013 include Jane Yolen, Sy Montgomery, Roger Sutton, Tanya Anderson, Michelle Markel and Tanya Lee Stone, among others; a complete line-up of contributors can be found on the site.

Sound great.  My hats off to the organizers!