“It’s for the women we haven’t learned about yet, and the women whose stories we will never read. “X is for the women whose names we don’t know,” reads the page. While the pages share the stories of many notable women of all races, ages, eras, and include Kate Bornstein, a transgender woman, one entry that stands out is the letter X. But I already feel like I can do it, so she kind of re-inspires me.” – Sammy, age 9 Like when someone is being mean to someone in my class or one of my friends, I tell them to stop, usually without hurting their feelings.Īre you inspired reading about someone like Angela Davis? Like if she can do it, you can do it? I can relate to some of those things because I can be an upstander, too.
It’s good for girls to read stories about strong women because it could encourage them to be one of them. It also shows why white people and black people should be treated equally, too. “It’s a good book because it shows why women should be treated equally as guys. She found so many women who she considered rad that she already has more similar books in mind – a series of rad women from around the world. “My original list was heavy on writers,” she laughs. She crowdsourced some ideas via her Facebook page. She was reading aloud to her daughter and the thought came to her: “What if I did a radical American women? I want to be able to read her empowering, cool stuff.” Since then she’s found many empowering kids’ books, she said, but at the time, “There wasn’t a lot out there (that was) interesting, fun, feminist, aesthetically pleasing.” When her daughter was two years old, Schatz says, “I was reflecting a lot on my identity as a writer, a feminist and a parent. The idea for the book came when Schatz was feeling less than rad herself.
“It was an incredibly fun book to research and write,” Schatz said in a recent interview in Alameda, CA, where she lives with her family. These rad women have all said, ‘Yes, I can.’”
“Each one worked hard and believed in herself, even when others expressed doubt, or said no. “Every single one of these women changed America in some way,” writes Kate Schatz in Rad American Women A-Z, an alphabet book for parents to read aloud, or kids to read to themselves. It’s a scant quarter inch thick, with a page for each letter of the alphabet, and beautiful woodblock prints of each rad woman. Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History And Our Future Written by Kate Schatz | Illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahlįor the future of our budding feminists, read this book to your kids.
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