Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
A Humor, History, Biography book. Born in the kingdom of Granada, she was forced to flee as a child when...
Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog.Well-behaved women seldom make history. Good thing these women are far from well behaved . . .Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty pink princess" stereotype portrayed in movies, and on endless toys, books, and tutus on its head, paying homage instead to an awesome collection of strong, fierce, and yes, sometimes weird, women: warrior queens, soldiers, villains, spies, revolutionaries, and more who refused to behave and meekly...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780062405388 / 62405381
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This is a book for any girl who ever felt she didn't fit in. You are not alone. You come from a long line of bold, strong, fearless women. Glory in that. Jason Porath, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics Born in the kingdom of Granada, she was forced to flee as a child when the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella drove the Muslims out of Europe with bloody force. Swearing Jason Porath, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
I really enjoyed this book overall. I always loved reading this type of "short chapters on interesting women" book as a kid, and it is fun to revisit that. (I would say that there are entries in here that aren't appropriate for kids, but then I think back to the non-fiction I read as a kid and I can't really say that haha.) One thing... One of these days I'm going to have to just accept not everyone likes things ordered in chronological fashion. Sigh. Awareness of rigidity doesn't seem to go far some days. Here, the mini-biographies are listed in order of violence of content, starting with G-rated lives, getting progressively worse throughout the book all the way up... It's only January but I'm pretty sure that this will still be the highlight of my reading year by the time 2017 ends. If you're interested in history (particularly the lesser known kind), you're a feminist, you appreciate art, and/or you're a human being (kind of assuming that last point grabs a lot of you if the others don't) then...
