Book Review: Inspiring Stories of Female Athletes

This is a great educational book for a young demographic- perhaps grammar school age as a learning textbook! The graphics and illustrations are very well done to engage a young reader to read and learn.

Was looking more for a coffee table book with high resolution photographs along with biographies of the 50 greatest women athletes, as a gift to an adult athlete.

I should have read the reviews. I bought this for my 13 year old daughter. It was much too young for her. The stories were not very well written and we were disappointed that there were no actual photos of the women athletes, just cartoon pictures. We returned it and bought something else for my sports obsessed girl. I really wanted to like this book!

I bought this book for my 11 year old niece who plays competitive basketball, softball and volleyball. It's such an engaging book - with it's inspiring stories about female athletes to the beautifully colored pages and illustrations. I saw other reviews that is was lacking pictures, this isn't a picture book. It's more like short biographies of each athlete. I think if you want that sort of book, you need to choose a subject and do some research where you'll find more imagery. It's well written and also provides little facts about each one as well, pulling you into their story.

As beautiful as it may seem, it's not really a kindle book. Imposible to read in paper white and just a waste of money. Buy the printed book, instead.

I bought this as a present for my 13 year old niece, and thought I’d give it a read before gifting it to her. I actually enjoyed reading it myself! The illustrations were whimsy and the stories diverse and inspiring. So many great role models of strong, beautiful, independent women!

After making the choice to homeschool my daughter in this 2020-21 school year, I quickly decided to embrace a women's studies approach. I am using all of the books by this author to help engage my 5th grader and introduce new stories to her. She hasn't yet seen the struggle of women to make their place in the world (or at least be acknowledged for it). As wonderful as that is, I want her to understand the growth that has happened and that still needs to continue.
We read through a woman a day and do some brief further study (in this case that usually means searching out their sport). When we find someone that really sparks her interest, we tackle a more in depth study of the woman, her life, her sport, and her journey. I love all the books by this author!