Herstory

By Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohrn

Book Overview

Women who changed the world40 crossword puzzles to entertain and educate about some of the world's most significant influencers and change-makers.These crosswords aren't intended to be fiendishly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670854344
• ISBN13: 9780670854349
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Perfection

A big, bright, attractive young adult-friendly but not dumbed-down reference. I'm particularly impressed by the balance achieved here between individual personalities and larger historical trends. Brava.

All About Women!

Here's one of the few great books that focus on women and their accomplishments only instead of men. This book featured 120 biographal sketches of women such as Cleopatra VII, Queen Victoria, Anna Pavlova, Gabrielle "Coco" Channel, Harriet Tubmanm, Elizabeth Blackwell, Queen Elizabeth I, and much, much more. These biographies are all wonderful, easy to read, and clearly say what these women have done and accomplished. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to read about women who have done amazing things. After all, women are capable of accomplishing and doing anything, and this book clearly shows that!

A necessity to anyone interested in women's history

What a gem! I have many history books about women because I want to share women's history with my children. I was of the generation where women were left out of the history class and I feel that women are still in large left out of much of the classes in today's schools. This book does a great job of including many women from different eras, genres and ethnicities. There are photos and great summaries that are short enough to interest children, but in-depth enough to give the reader a knowledgeable understanding. I highly recommend this book to anyone, at any level!

exellent!

This is the best book! Are you tired or reading about history through the eyes of a man? Before this history was documented by wars and treatys but this book is totally different. You learn about history as well as her-story, I learned about more than a hundred other women who changed the movement of the world. Some created inventions, others opened schools, they fighted for wemens rights and protested their weekness by working twice as hard as any man. This was a great book I really injoyed reading it, I hope you do too.