Recently in our elementary school library, three girls asked me for a book with 鈥渟cary language鈥 because they are writing a legend of La Llorona. When I told them that Frankenstein was written by a woman, their eyes got big! They were surprised and amazed and wanted to know more! But as I was creating our Women鈥檚 History Month display, I noted that our collection is heavy on traditional biographies of men and that it lacked some of the amazing recent titles about women. It鈥檚 time to shake things up and bring more remarkable women to the forefront.
March is Women鈥檚 History Month! But our library collection is short of exciting picture book biographies of notable women! What better way to inspire children to achieve, to make a difference and to work to their full potential than sharing the true stories of trailblazers before them. By sharing and promoting books about notable women, all our children will be reminded to persevere and to see the possible!
What achievements by women do we not know about because we don't have a book available? By having more high-quality biographies of women in our library, we will encourage everyone to do amazing things!
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Recently in our elementary school library, three girls asked me for a book with 鈥渟cary language鈥 because they are writing a legend of La Llorona. When I told them that Frankenstein was written by a woman, their eyes got big! They were surprised and amazed and wanted to know more! But as I was creating our Women鈥檚 History Month display, I noted that our collection is heavy on traditional biographies of men and that it lacked some of the amazing recent titles about women. It鈥檚 time to shake things up and bring more remarkable women to the forefront.
March is Women鈥檚 History Month! But our library collection is short of exciting picture book biographies of notable women! What better way to inspire children to achieve, to make a difference and to work to their full potential than sharing the true stories of trailblazers before them. By sharing and promoting books about notable women, all our children will be reminded to persevere and to see the possible!
What achievements by women do we not know about because we don't have a book available? By having more high-quality biographies of women in our library, we will encourage everyone to do amazing things!