HIT: Elem: Strong Female Characters

[Christine Carr <bookladycc@YAHOO.COM>]

Here are the responses to my earlier post.  You are all the best.  Suggestions were 
perfect.

Christine Carr, Librarian

LC Noecker School, Roseland, NJ

bookladycc@yahoo.com

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How about Amelia and Eleanor?

I love the following bio of Wilma Rudolph (in picture book format).

It's a

terrific and inspiring read aloud.

Krull, Kathelen.  Wilma Unlimited:  How Wilma Rudolph became the

World’s

Fastest Woman.  New York:  Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996.

I think it is called Seven Brave Women by ?

Aunt Lulu by Daniel Pinkwater

Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco

Wilma Unlimited, Wilma Rudolph;Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges; Amelia

and

Eleanor Go for a Ride: Based on a True Storyit is about Eleanor

Roosevelt

and Amelia Earhart; The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and

Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown

"I Have Heard of a Land" comes to mind immediately, but I can't recall the author

Swamp Angel, Miss Rumphius. Olivia,

Mirandy and Brother Wind, Sleeping Ugly, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter

Christine, Take a look at this bibliography prepared by Kay Vandergrift

at Rutgers.

Click Here: <A

HREF="http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/Feminist/fempic.html">Female

Voices in Picture Books</A>

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/Feminist/fempic.html

Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride?"by Pam Munoz

The Fourth Little Pig by Teresa Celsi is a great book about the 3

Little

Pigs sister who is very brave and tells them to stop hiding and do

something with their lives.

Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, and

there's a great little picture bio about Kate ...? , the girl who warns

the train about the flooded out bridge. It's a well-known book (but I'm

away from my catalog)

Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius, Katharine Lasky's Sea Swan,

Biographies:  Fly High!: the story of Bessie Coleman, David Adler's

picture

biographies of various women; You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by

Shana Corey,  Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride by Marsha Amstel, They

Called

Her Molly Pitcher, If a Bus Could talk: the story of Rosa Parks by

Faith

Ringgold, etc.

Not One Damsel In Distress by Jane Yolen and The Serpent Slayer: and

other

stories of strong women by Katrin Tchana are folk tale collections that

may

be useful to you.

See FANNY'S DREAM, see THREE STRONG WOMEN, and SWAMP ANGEL

Sarah Stewart's " The

Gardener", Cooney's "Miss Rhumphius", and Depaola's

"The Legend of the Bluebonnets"

Nobody Owns the Sky (about Bessie Coleman, the first

African-American woman pilot way back in the early days of flight) and

Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride (about Amelia Earhart and Eleanor

Roosevelt - based on a true incident).  Or The Library (by Sarah

Stewart)

The School Story by Andrew Clements

Esperanza Rising

Mirette on the High Wire
by Emily Arnold McCully

Axle Annie, Thundercake, Miss Rumphius

The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola

the Madeline books by

Bemelmans, Blueberries for Sal, by McClosky, Junie B. Jones by Barbara

Park,A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle (but not a picture book).Brave Irene

by

William Steig, Mirette on the High Wire (not sure if the title is 100%

correct and I cannot remember the author at the moment), Miss Rumphius

, A

Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams, The 'Frances' book by Russel and

Lillian Hoban, The Courage of Sarah Noble, and of course The Little

Engine

That Could (it was a female train!).






Christine Carr, Librarian
Lester C Noecker Elementary School
Roseland, NJ


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