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Favilli, Elena.
Good night stories for rebel girls :
100 tales of extraordinary women /
Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo.
100 tales of extraordinary women.
[Venice, CA :
Timbuktu Labs, Inc.,
[2016]
xii, 212 pages :
color illustrations.
Maria Callas, opera singer -- Maria Montessori, physician and educator -- Maria Reiche, archaeologist -- Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist -- Marie Curie, scientist -- Mary Anning, paleontologist -- Mary Edwards Walker, surgeon -- Mary Kom, boxer -- Matilde Montoya, doctor -- Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist -- Maya Angelou, writer -- Maya Gabeira, surfer -- Melba Liston, trombonist -- Michaela Deprince, ballerina -- Michelle Obama, lawyer and First Lady -- Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, drummer -- The Mirabal sisters, activists -- Miriam Makeba, activist and singer -- Misty Copeland, ballerina -- Nancy Wake, spy -- Nanny of the Maroons, Queen -- Nellie Bly, reporter -- Nettie Stevens, geneticist -- Nina Simone, singer -- Policarpa Salavarrieta, spy -- Rita Levi Montalcini, scientist -- Rosa Parks, activists -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice -- Ruth Harkness, explorer -- Seondeok of Silla, Queen -- Serena and Venus Williams, tennis players -- Simone Biles, gymnast -- Sonita Alizadeh, rapper -- Sylvia Earle, marine biologist -- Tamara de Lempicka, painter -- Virginia Woolf, writer -- Wang Zhenyi, astronomer -- Wangari Maathai, activist -- Wilma Rudolph, athlete -- Xian Zhang, orchestra conductor -- Yaa Asante Waa, warrior queen -- Yoko Ono, artist -- Yusra Mardini, swimmer -- Zaha Hadid, architect.
Presents inspiring stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams, with illustrations by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe.
20180719.
Women
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Cavallo, Francesca.