Great Books For Girls : More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
Author: Kathleen Odean
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ISBN: 0345450213
Publisher: Ballantine Books (30 April, 2002)
Sales Rank: 15,456
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Love it! Great resource for parents of girls *and* boys!
We bought this book when our daughter was under two and have found it a charming and invaluable resource. Whenever her skills and interests change, it leads us to many wonderful books. We have yet to find a book listed that is not both beautiful and interesting. I only have two quibbles. First, it should be called "Great Books About Girls for Girls and Boys", since boys could use some positive female role models too. Second, I desperately wish it contained similar listings for movies and videos!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Parents of girls: take this book with you to the library!
We take this book with us every library visit. It's full of wonderful books that we would never have found.
Strongly recommended!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Conflicting - but generally positive
A lifelong feminist, I usually have clear feelings about things to do with women and girls. But women/girl - only things are not clear cut. Obviously it would be nice if such things were not necessary, if girls self-esteem was not constantly battled against by society etc.., If Ophelia didn't need saving. But given reality, offsetting influences are still of use. Even so, reading the entries in this book I found myself wanting to ask sometimes: but is it a *good* book?
Many book descriptions included the reasoning for their inclusion (besides positive role models etc..), but some didn't. Regarding those entries, I wanted to know: Is it well-written? Is it content- and flavor- rich, or is it another feeble attempt at PC? In my opinion, books like that are worthless. I wasn't sure I could assume that Odean shared my sentiments about that.
Perhaps the more recent edition is better for that.
In many ways though, this book is great. The explanations of the books are in-depth, all the useful info is included. There are indexes - very compact ones that take up little space. One of my favorite additional things in this book is the section on parent resources - there are many goodies in this section including a list of 4 magazines that librarians use to know what new books are out. Great for keeping up with all that is going on!
All in all a great effort within a very challenging context!
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