Girl Power! Non-fiction Books with Female Heroes
Posted on January 11, 2011 by Suzan Woodard in Reading Lists, Uncategorized.
Tags: Amelia Earhart, Big Universe, Biographies for Kids, Female Heroes, graphic novel, Inspire Girls, Non-fiction picture books, Saddleback Educational Publishing
On this day 76 years ago, Amelia Earhart took flight from a Honolulu area runway in her red Lockheed Vega. Eighteen hours later, she had made her mark in the history books as the first pilot – man or woman – to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California. She landed successfully in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 12, 1935, having traveled a little over 2,400 miles!
This was just one of many adventure flights completed by the popular aviator, before she disappeared mysteriously in an around-the-world flight in 1937. Earhart had the heart of a pioneer, just like her grandparents who had traveled to Kansas in a covered wagon to help settle the Midwest.
Saddleback Educational Publishing strives to capture this spirit of adventure in its 32-page graphic biography “Amelia Earhart.” BigUniverse.com also offers other non-fiction picture books with smart, strong, courageous, kind and adventuresome females in the starring role. Read a book. Light a fire.
Books to Inspire Girls to Greatness
- Jane Goodall: Animal Scientist and Friend
- Jean Driscoll
- Mother Teresa: A Life of Kindness
- Rosa Parks: A Life of Courage
- Early America: Pocahontas
- Early America: Phillis Wheatley
- Early America: Abigail Adams
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Marie Curie: Pioneering Physicist
- Rachel Carson: Nature’s Guardian
- Harriet Tubman
- Madam Curie – Graphic Biography
- Helen Keller
I love that you highlighted Amelia Earhart! I highlighted Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Emily Dickinson and Audry Hepburn in promoting my girl power fiction book that I’m hoping will also inspire girls to believe in themselves. True inspirations! Thank you.