Bibliograph

100 women who made history, remarkable women who shaped our world, written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

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100 women who made history, remarkable women who shaped our world, written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 8 to 12

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 3 to 7

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

100 women who made history

Oclc number

949640693

Responsibility statement

written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

Sub title

remarkable women who shaped our world

Summary

Celebrate centuries of brave and brilliant women with this visual guide that takes kids on a tour of the past and uncovers the stories of the women and girls who have shaped the modern world

Table Of Contents

CLUED-UP CREATIVES: Sappho -- Mira Bai -- Emily Dickinson -- SCREEN STARS: Marlene Dietrich ; Marilyn Monroe ; Kathryn Bigelow -- Madhuri Dixit ; Jennifer Lawrence -- Josephine Baker -- Edith Piaf -- Maria Callas -- Frida Kahlo -- WOMEN WRITERS: Murasaki Shikibu ; Shin Saimdang ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Jane Austen ; Maya Angelou -- Anne Frank -- Joni Mitchell -- J.K. Rowling -- SUPER SCIENTISTS: Hypatia -- Émilie du Châtelet -- Ada Lovelace -- Mary Anning -- Sofia Kovalevskaya -- Lise Meitner -- Marie Curie -- HEALTHCARE HEROES: Mary Seacole ; Florence Nightingale ; Edith Cavell ; Agnes Hunt ; Averil Mansfield -- Chien-Shung Wu -- Dian Fossey -- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi -- Rosalind Franklin -- INSPIRING CAMPAIGNERS: Olympe de Gouges -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Harriet Tubman -- Louise Michel -- Bertha von Suttner -- LANDMARK MOMENTS: Princess Isabel of Brazil ; Helen Keller ; Rachel Carson ; Wangari Maathai ; Margaret Chan -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Sophie Scholl -- Rosa Parks -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Malala Yousafzai -- LEADING LADIES -- Joan of Arc -- COOL QUEENS: Hatshepsut ; Cleopatra ; Eleanor of Aquitaine ; Razia Sultana ; Queen Victoria -- Catherine the Great -- Wu Zeitan -- Taytu Betul -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Sacagawea -- Maria Quitéria de Jesus -- Dolores Ibárruri -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Indira Gandhi -- Margaret Thatcher -- Angela Merkel -- POLITICAL PIONEERS: Golda Meir ; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ; Graça Machel -- Shirin Ebadi -- Benazir Bhutto -- INTREPID ENTREPRENEURS: Bertha Benz -- Sarah Breedlove -- Coco Chanel -- Indra Nooyi -- Peggy Guggenheim -- Oprah Winfrey -- INTERNET IMPACT: Carol Bartz ; Radia Perlman ; Sheryl Sandberg ; Martha Lane Fox ; Juliana Rotich -- AMAZING ACHIEVERS: Althea Gibson -- Nellie Bly -- HIGH FLIERS: Harriet Quimby ; Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya ; Amelia Earhart ; Amy Johnson ; Valentina Tereshkova -- Gertrude Bell -- Junko Tabei -- Wilma Rudolph -- Nova Peris -- Serena Williams -- Tanni Grey-Thompson -- Jessica Ennis-Hill -- Marta -- Let's applaud ... -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements

Target audience

pre adolescent

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One hundred women who made history

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