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Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
by Monica Brown
A picture book tribute to the iconic Mexican artist reveals how the animals in her life and her personal struggles inspired many of her works of art and how her achievements raised awareness about her indigenous culture and the female form.
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Shaking Things Up : 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
by Susan Hood
An ensemble of leading women picture book creators join together to promote education and celebrate the Women's March through tributes to 14 of history's young female revolutionaries, including Malala Yousafzai, Molly Williams and Nelly Bly.
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Bloom : A Story of Elsa Schiaparelli
by Kyo Maclear
A dazzling picture book biography of one of the world's most influential fashion designers traces the life of Elsa Schiaparelli from birth and childhood to the height of her success. Includes informative back matter and suggested further reading.
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Malala's Magic Pencil
by Malala Yousafzai
A first picture book by history's youngest Nobel Prize laureate describes how as a child in Pakistan she wished for a magic pencil to make others happy and to make her home cleaner and safer before she learned how to make positive changes without magic.
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Dorothea Lange : The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Before she raised her lens to take her most iconic photo, Dorothea Lange took photos of the downtrodden from bankers in once-fine suits waiting in breadlines, to former slaves, to the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. A case of polio had left her with a limp and sympathetic to those less fortunate. Traveling across the United States, documenting with her camera and her field book those most affected by the stock market crash, she found the face of the Great Depression. In this picture book biography, Carole Boston Weatherford with her lyrical prose captures the spirit of the influential photographer.
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Rosa : My First Rosa Parks
by Lisbeth Kaiser
A board book version of an international best-seller from the highly acclaimed Little People, Big Dreams series introduces the youngest dreamers to the "mother of the freedom movement."
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Emmeline : Emmeline Pankhurst
by Lisbeth Kaiser
A board book adaptation of a best-selling entry in the critically acclaimed series touches on her childhood introduction to emancipation activism, the gender divides that barred her from pursuing a formal education and her rise to a history-shaping suffragette leader.
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Dream Big, Little One
by Vashti Harrison
A board book adaptation of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History introduces 18 trailblazing women whose actions and beliefs in defiance of limits imposed on their gender, race or both made the world better for generations of girls.
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