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Pros & Cons
Pros
Stories are rated from g-r, just like movies, so you know which ones are suitable for children. Each entry is rated on a 1-5 scale for maturity as well as trigger warnings. Author's writing is easy to read and often amusing.
Jason porath is socially and culturally aware (in today's parlance, woke), and is able to apprehend clearly the social barriers and restrictions that have plagued women throughout history. As history is uncovered, more information may shine lights on ... Read More
Beautiful art helps captivate the imagination of each princess. Telling the tales of women throughout history and mythology who are kicka$$ awesome. Like noor inayat kahn.
The pages are colored in a parchment style, with rich deep color illustrations. The animation-style art is great. Great for sustainable light reading.
Cons
The stories are categorized by maturity level and contain content warnings. Great idea, but the prose is so bad, it is impossible to read to a child. Instead try good night stories rebel girls good night stories for rebel girls and rad american women.... Read More
The author exploits her name and muddies our history. I feel like it completely destroyed my enjoyment of learning about these women because of it. What is a *?
Highlights
Quality
This is an amazing collection of stories with beautiful illustrations regarding strong females rulersprincesses and the quality... Read More
But with the information available today this was written excellently
Even the women with the most vile reputations are offered with a grain of salt
I finally got my copy with the authors signature
Price
Porath is not as far as i know a professionally trained historian
Packaging/appearance
There was no sugar coating the harsh realities for these women
Competitiveness
The only reason i didnt give it a fivestar review was that in stories i was already familiar with i noticed a few places where ... Read More
Also its weighty in the hand as an overlarge hardcover which makes it feel like a total steal
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- This product had a total of 788 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 8 2022.
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Its laughoutloud funny in many places but doesnt stint on the humanity in the stories
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The first page of each story has little warnings about the content in case youre reading to a child
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There was no sugar coating the harsh realities for these women
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I think it’s crazy how so many of these women were vilified by men for daring to stand up for themselves and for others
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Believe me i wrote a paper on female pirates and could find almost zero information
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The author makes no effort to push one story over another and often informs the reader that there are different versions
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I had to google frequently to see how to pronounce certain names and other words
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For the people who got it for their kids sorry but this book is definitely not for young kids
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