100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.
Elena Favilli (Author)
Elena Favilli is a media entrepreneur and a journalist. She has
worked for Colors magazine, McSweeney's, RAI, Il Post, and La
Repubblica, and has managed digital newsrooms on both sides of the
Atlantic. In 2011, she created the first iPad magazine for
children, Timbuktu magazine. She is the founder and CEO of Timbuktu
Labs.
Francesca Cavallo (Author)
Francesca Cavallo is a writer and theatre director. Her
award-winning plays have been staged all across Europe. A
passionate social innovator, Francesca is the founder of
Sferracavalli, an International Festival of Sustainable Imagination
in Southern Italy. In 2011, Francesca joined forces with Elena
Favilli to found Timbuktu Labs, where she serves as Creative
Director.
A revolution at bedtime... Esther Walker thought she had parenting
down until she read the hit book to her daughter. It has changed
their lives
*Sunday Times Magazine*
The publishing sensation of the year
*Evening Standard, Books of the Year*
The definitive book of the year in our house, for both parents and
offspring. It offers celebratory, non-judgmental paeans to the
varied lives of influential women. Anyone needing an antidote for
certain oversexualised, underoccupied screen heroines need look no
further
*Guardian Books of the Year*
A welcome reminder to girls that nothing stands in their way -
except a lack of self-belief. This book started as a crowd-funded
project and has become a best-seller which is the best news of the
year
*Daily Mail Books of the Year*
This amazing book shows young girls they can be anything they
want
*Melinda Gates*
Trust me, your life needs Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls...
Absolutely beautiful - get one for yourself and one to inspire a
woman in your life
*Stylist*
Featuring spies, pirates, astronauts, activists, scientists,
writers, sports stars and more, many of the stories are so
thrilling and uplifting your child's heart may beat a little
faster, her mind racing with possibilities. If she leaps out of bed
to get to work, blame the authors
*Guardian*
Modern and fundamentally feminist, this riot grrrl reinvention of
the fairytale is so inspiring adults are also reading it in
droves
*i newspaper*
Elegant, colourful... and captivatingly told... In an ideal world,
not only would mothers read this aloud to daughters, but teachers
would read it to schoolboys
*Sunday Times*
A book to keep, treasure and read again, and the end pages are a
call to arms: space for readers to write their own story and drawn
their own portrait. Essential reading for girls and indeed boys;
children who read this at bedtime are guaranteed some big and
inspirational dreams
*Observer*
In a sign of the times - that rebellion is good - there's a book
dominating the Christmas bestsellers list this year. It is Good
Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca
Cavallo... what the title says to girls is that history has placed
laurels on the heads of men, that children's books have left them
out, and that this is their time for revolution
*Evening Standard*
Forget passive simpering princesses and damsels in distress - the
heroines of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls are famed for their
real-life achievements
*Red*
The all-female team behind a pioneering new book called Good Night
Stories for Rebel Girls are confronting the tired, patriarchal
narrative head-on. It sets out to challenge gender stereotypes and
inspire young girls to aim high in their career goals
*Daily Mail*
A must-have for the nightstand of every girl or young woman you
know
*Forbes*
The feminist bedtime story book you'll wish you had growing up
*Stylist*
The exceptional women included here come from many times and
places... Each is celebrated in a brief biography written in the
style of a modern fairy tale - with the twist that she is often an
unsung shaper of our society. Illustrations by female artists add
to the joy of this ebullient, inspiring collection
*Guardian*
A worldwide hit
*The Times*
Really inspiring for all young girls, they should all read it
*The Late Late Toy Show, RTÉ*
A cracking book... beautifully illustrated, a great source for
young women to be inspired
*The Late Late Toy Show, RTÉ*
The feminist book every child needs in their bedroom... bedtime
stories which tell of real women shattering the glass ceiling and
challenging patriarchy should be read to all children - not just to
little girls, but to little boys, too
*Grazia*
Go out now and add Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls to your
bookshelf. Gripping and beautiful, Sofya has paused her Harry
Potter obsession to tell me all about Aung San Suu Kyi and Anna
Politkovskaya. Be still my feminist heart
*The Pool*
The key message is perseverance rather than success. Crucially, the
book also gives exposure to female illustrators. Their diverse
styles are universally attractive, with bright appealing colours
and expressive faces. Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls would be a
valuable addition to the bookshelves of any child interested in
history, regardless of their gender
*Irish Times*
You have to buy it for the little ones in your lives, but you also
need a copy for your grown-up bookshelf... There is serious girl
power between the covers of this book
*Bustle*
From politics to sport to technology to entertainment, Good Night
Stories for Rebel Girls wonderfully celebrates the power of a
woman's touch. It is a book that makes you proud to be a woman and
allows little girls to dream big!
*Curious Mum*
Potted biographies of lots of great women - not just rebels
(although many of them are), but scientists, writers, artists,
politicians. A great ethnic and historical mix too, and lots of
women who did great things as children and teenagers
*Sally Nicholls*
An excellent book... it should be top of every girl's reading list
- and boys too, so they can see the vital role played by women
throughout history. This crowdfunded book has become a smash hit,
and quite rightly so
*Parents in Touch*
Our favourite bedtime read
*Little London*
If you're looking for something to help your daughter (or son)
dream big tonight, there's one book up for the task... Uncovering
the art of asking a lot of questions, Good Night Stories for Rebel
Girls is about the moments that make a life truly extraordinary -
the trying, the failing, and most importantly, the trying again
*Mama Mia, Australia*
It's a pretty safe bet to say that, if your child goes to school
dressed as one of the Rebel Girl heroines for World Book Day,
rather than as Hermoine Granger, Cinderella or Katniss Everdeen,
say, she's absolutely on-trend for 2018
*Daily Telegraph*
There's a book my younger daughter asks me to read to her every
night. . . this book is different, because when I put it down and
turn off her light, she sometimes says: "I want to be in it." It
will come as no surprise that the book is Elena Favilli and
Francesca Cavallo's Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, and has
become a publishing sensation
*Guardian*
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