An Historic Women Round-Up

Happy July!

With the Fourth upcoming, it seemed appropriate to share these titles with you. :)

(Received for review and technically not yet read in depth by me)

Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts
This picture is a follow-up to Founding Mothers and introduces kids to women explorers, educators, writers, activists, etc who shaped our nation's history.  And it is indeed based on the author's best-selling adult book of the same name.

A Kids' Guide to America's First Ladies by Kathleen Krull
If you've got older kids, here's an awesome choice.  It's filled with anecdotes and timelines and gives info on all of our first ladies (up to Michelle Obama, I believe.)  I'm making my older kids read it this month, because I'm a nice mom and assign things like that over the summer.

Real Friends by Shannon Hale

5 stars
memoir, graphic biography

This was so good.

In fact, I made this required summer reading for both Boo and Mister.... and then MeiMei insisted on reading it too.

(I wouldn't have given it to MeiMei, not because there's anything inappropriate but just because it probably went over her head a bit, but hey, she really really wanted to read it.)

Mister was a little more resistant to reading it, but he's probably the one who would benefit the most from reading about interactions with friends, so I insisted, lol.

Anyway, it's graphic novel format (though it's a memoir, not a novel) so it's a really fast read.

My only complaint is probably the font size.... my eyes are not a fan. ;)

Overall, just go read it.