Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away follows Anne Frank’s life from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands until the Frank family was forced into hiding.
Browsing: women’s history
Learn the story of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor in Doña Fela’s Dream, written by Monica Brown and illustrated Rosa Ibarra.
Learn about Nancy Harkness Love, one of the pioneering female American aeronauts, in Lady Flyer, by Heather B. Moore.
Discover the story of one of the most beloved children’s book authors in The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Learn about detective novelist Agatha Christie in A Mind of Her Own: The Story of Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, by Robyn McGrath and Liz Wong.
Learn about one of the women who secretly served as soldiers during the Civil War in Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman, by Joanna Lapati.
The advent of war tests a very special relationship in The Secret Elephant: Inspired by a True Story of Friendship, by Ellan Rankin
March is Women’s History Month. You can learn more about some fascinating women by reading the following picture books.
Learn about America’s first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings in Spying on Spies, by Marissa Moss.
Learn about some of the young women who helped break ciphers at Bletchley Park during World War II in The Enigma Girls, by Candace Fleming.