Browsing: Strong Female Characters

The Children’s Book Review | July 5, 2016 Age Range: 3-7 Hardcover: 34 pages What Would It Be Like? Written by McArthur…

Would you like to sail the seas as a pirate? Swing, flip and sparkle as a trapeze artist? Solve big problems as the next president?

In Interstellar Cinderella, a futuristic retelling of the classic tale, Cinderella studies ship repair late at night, after her evil stepmother and stepsisters have gone to bed.

Django Wexler Discusses Alice, the Heroine of The Forbidden Library Series

This book, wonderfully written and illustrated by Adam Auerbach, provides a fun and imaginative tale, with a uniquely voiced female character at its center.

I want to talk about strong female characters in dystopian worlds, but right off the bat, I’m going to be difficult and say, “Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What do we mean by strong exactly?”