{"id":24039,"date":"2017-12-22T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=24039"},"modified":"2017-12-22T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:00:23","slug":"and-to-all-a-rebellious-good-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=24039","title":{"rendered":"And to All a Rebellious Good Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first post <\/a>for the ShelfTalker team\u00a0last January celebrated the success of\u00a0I Dissent<\/em>,\u00a0BookPeople’s top kids’ book of December 2016. This year, customers are once again\u00a0choosing over and over again to share the stories of determined\u00a0women with strong minds who accomplish great things. The\u00a0crowd-funded launch\u00a0of Good Night Stores for Rebel Girls<\/em> last year was not only record-breaking, it also produced a gorgeous book\u00a0blending the stories of\u00a0well-known heroes\u00a0such as Serena Williams, Marie Curie, Misty Copeland, and Jane Goodall along with\u00a0tales of activists, journalists, students, and\u00a0pirates\u00a0whose stories\u00a0remain relatively unknown.\u00a0Incredibly wide-ranging and inclusive, the\u00a0one-page profiles of 100 women and girls from all walks of life, cultures, and ages collectively paint a picture of a world in which pretty much anything is possible. And now the record-breaking book has become a record-breaking series.
\nThe first volume\u00a0features stories of women\u00a0who crushed rebellions and led countries, women who championed causes and fought for justice, and women who knew their worth and stood up for who they \"\"<\/a>knew themselves to be.\u00a0The release of\u00a0Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Volume 2 <\/em>proves that the 100 women profiled in the first volume weren’t flukes and, in fact, are just a drop in the bucket of achievements\u00a0earned and progress made\u00a0by\u00a0rebels who dug in, found their voices, and refused to fit anyone’s mold. There’s 100 more after that, and you’d better believe there’s another 100 after that too.
\nThe thematic connection between this year’s kids’ bestseller and last year’s feels like more than coincidence. It’s a reflection of the current zeitgeist, a reflection of the stories we need right now, and\u00a0a focus\u00a0that’s reflected in more than one great book.\u00a0Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World\u00a0<\/em>came out earlier this year and has been tremendously popular, offering\u00a0essays, poems, photos, lists, comics, and illustrations that\u00a0combine to affirm that feminism is intersectional and doesn’t always mean the exact same thing. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History <\/em>came out just this month, taking a focused look at\u00a040 leaders from Black history who have boldly gone where none has gone before. With irresistible illustrations and engaging profiles, demand almost instantly outstripped our supply. Biographies of\u00a0architectural visionaries had a strong year too, with fascinating profiles of Maya Lin and Zaha Hadid. One of my favorite books of the year,\u00a0The World Is Not a Rectangle,<\/em> made Hadid’s unconventional architectural philosophy accessible to a very young audience, suggesting there’s no right way to view the world and that maybe,\u00a0just maybe<\/em>,\u00a0lines are more interesting when they’re\u00a0bent, curved, twisted, and swirled.
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