womens-history-month

Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire.  Unlike most girls, Nelle preferred ove...

When Amelia was young, she liked to imagine she could stretch her wings and fly away like a bird. As a grown woman, she set a new female world reco...

Barbie's Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time! Barbie honors longest-serving First Lady of the United States, U...

When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...

Be inspired by the fierce glow of femininity with this illustrated Goddesses & Pets Puzzle, awash with vibrant colors, bold patterns, and textu...

Kamala Harris' life has been full of firsts, including becoming the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to be elected vice pres...

Featuring the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Aroun...

When Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan, her father was determined she would have every opportunity that a boy would have. She loved getting an e...

Maria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn't receive an equal education to boys. But Maria's mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria w...

When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...

Little Michelle grew up on the South-Side of Chicago in a loving, connected family. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Michell...

Follow la vida y el legado of Pura Belpré, the first  Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.  When she came to America in 1921, Pura carried the ...

Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa wont on to become a civil-rights activist whose cour...

Barbie's Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way...

As a young person, little Ruth recognized  injustice in the world. She decided to work to make her country a fairer place- for everyone. From her c...

On June 26, 2018, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender from New York City, became the youngest woman ever elected to serve o...

At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out...

Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always been an imaginative person and an...

On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...

Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called att...

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she marr...

Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married the heir to the Russian throne. ...

Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting...