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My Name Is Not Isabella (2008)

by Jennifer Fosberry(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0980200075 (ISBN13: 9780980200072)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Monkey Barrel Press

review 1: Genius. The colors are perfect, and Fosberry picks a decent line-up of female role models that are still relevant today. Through the trailblazers, little girls can see what it means to be a doctor or an astronaut or an activist (and just in case they don't, there's a section at the end that explains it in a little more detail for the parent, and a neat one sentence sum-up for the child). However, I wouldn't include "mommy" as a career/role model. I'd like my child to know that she can be a mommy AND an astronaut, if she so chooses. And, you know, NASA hasn't been totally defunded by then.
review 2: This is a great fictional story that includes the accomplishments of a handful of women who changed the world, such as Sally Ride, Rosa Parks, and Marie Curie. I... moret encourages both girls and boys to go after their dreams just as these women did. Isabella models a positive example of self-identity and self-affirmation as she decides that she possesses the best parts of all the women she looks up to. I would use this story to increase young students' interest in women's history and because it has a good message for young girls especially. It would be a good read aloud book, which can also be tied to a mini-lesson on the accomplishments of the famous women described in the back of the book. less

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