{"id":17592,"date":"2018-02-20T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:30:38","slug":"womens-history-month-books-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/womens-history-month-books-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s History Month: Books and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How are you celebrating Women&#8217;s History Month at your library?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet a room full of amazing people through books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Favorite New Children&#8217;s Biographies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Before She Was Harriet<\/em> by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Illustrated by James Ransome<br><em>Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed The World<\/em> by Susan Hood. Illustrated by 13 Extraordinary Women.<br><em>No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/em> by Kathleen Krull<br><em>Gloria\u2019s Voice: The Story of Gloria Steinem \u2013 Feminist, Activist, Leader<\/em> by Aura Lewis<br><em>Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon<\/em> by Annette Bay Pimental Illustrated by Micha Archer<br><em>The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian&#8217;s Art Changed Science<\/em> by Joyce Sidman<br><em>Who Says Women Can\u2019t Be Computer Programmers? The Story of Ada Lovelace<\/em> by Tanya Lee Stone. Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman<br><em>Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Women Who Loved Reptiles<\/em> by Patricia Valdez Illustrated by Felicita Sala<br><em>Malala&#8217;s Magic Pencil<\/em> by Malala Yousafzai<em><br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/about\/\">The Library of Congress and other selected resources for Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/blogs\/metkids\/2016\/womens-history-month\">MetKidsBlog &#8211; Celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month with Art!&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwhm.org\/students-and-educators\">National Women&#8217;s History Museum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/collections\/138721\/celebrating-womens-history-month\">Poetry Foundation: Celebrating Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/search-results\/?search=1&amp;text=Women's%20History%20Month\">Scholastic &#8211; Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianeducation.org\/educators\/resource_library\/women_resources.html\">Smithsonian Education: Women&#8217;s History Teaching Resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/women.nasa.gov\/womenshistory\/\">Women@NASA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A selection of favorite book lists and program ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rifflebooks.com\/list\/201248\">Amazing Women in History<\/a>\u00a0updated book list.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rifflebooks.com\/list\/227470\">Celebrate women artists during the month of March! &#8211; book list.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/celebrate-women-artists\/\">Women Artists &#8211; program ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite ways to share biographies with children is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/name-that-person\/\">\u201cName that Person!\u201d<\/a> What are some of your favorite ways to share children\u2019s biographies?&nbsp; Please share in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are you celebrating Women&#8217;s History Month at your library?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[787,135],"class_list":["post-17592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-paige-bentley-flannery","tag-juvenile-biographies","tag-womens-history-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}