Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

I gifted this to my 3-year-old niece and read the whole thing myself (I’m in my 20s), and it’s absolutely wonderful. It’s inspirational and it’s bound to make kids curious to know more. It’s colourful with pictures of all the women so that maintains the interest. This is the best thing to read to little girls if you want to install both kindness and ambition and self-belief in them at a young age. I’d have LOVED to have had this book as a kid. It’s brilliant.

A book to read to every child. Was gifted to us when my child was 5yo and since then we have gifted it to many other kids as well. Almost 100 short 1-2 page inspirational stories that can spark many further questions and conversions with your child. We started early but each time we read this together something new comes up and I am sure we will treasure reading this for many more years to come.

There are good books, there are great books and then there our books which touch our lives in a very special ways. They tell stories which inspire us, make us happy, tales which we instantly connect with, stories which make us pick the book up again and again. Today, I'm writing about one such book which I recently came across. The title of the book was appealing enough for me to pick it up for my little Z. What I didn't know was that the stories in the book will touch my heart as much as they inspire my daughter. The book is called Goodnight stories for Rebel girls. It's written by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. It has illustrations by 60 female artists from across the globe. I made Z pick up her abosolute favorites and she did give me a long list after a lot of drama, according to her, "how can I pick only a few. I love all the stories." Anyway, her favorites include Margaret Hamilton, Brenda Chapman, Ann Makosinski, Coy Mathis, Maria Montessori, Jane Austen, Cleopatra, Julia Child, Simone Billes, Ashley Fiolek, Nelly Bly and Malala Yousafzai. I can't blame her for picking so many of them. The length of the stories, the illustrations, the narrative, everything is perfect. We have read these stories once and we are reading it once again... I know it definitely isn't the last time she is (sorry we are) reading it. I love the message in the beginning of the the book as well; "To the rebel girls of the world: Dream bigger, aim higher, fight harder, and when in doubt, remember you are right." I wish I had Goodnight stories for rebel girls, when I was a little girl.

I woke up this morning at the age of thirty and read this bed time story book for children, as differing as it can get like the portraits of the hundred rebel girls in this book. I am not entirely satisfied with the choice of women in the write ups and the content that describes them. While each individual faces his or her own battle, when it is about picking them up for a motivational book which is intended to be read by children and girls especially the choice of incidents and words that describe them have to carry some exceptional substance. I found this lacking greatly in many places. The illustrations though are brilliant and sharp. Some portraits are highly inspirational. The book maybe titled ‘Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls’ but this is a must read for boys and men. This is a commendable crowd funded book for the right cause which is not just feminism. Creating your own identity irrespective of your gender, nationality, caste, background and limitations is as important as well. This one teaches just that.

I had purchased this book when she was around 6 years old. She still loves reading this book. Best part of the book is very simple language, 1 page one story which doesn’t make the stories monotonous. The quality of pages and book cover is amazing ! Overall a very good read for children as well for adults (you will get to know about various women personalities some of whom we may might have forgotten)

I feel like I'm holding something historical in my hands. I just read the first story and almost feel like crying. School told me Charles Babbage was the father of the computer. No one said that Ada Lovelace helped him create it. The illustrations are beautiful. The stories are one page long and simple to read. I've already gifted this to a child and I will keep buying this and gifting this to every child of a relative or friend I have. I'm reading this to my son. This is an excellent and meaningful gift.

I would recommend this book to everyone in this whole universe they should know that even girls can do anything impossible even better than the boys. Mostly I will give this book to my parents to tell that even I can do this thanks. This book should be recommended to every girl in the world she should know that yes even girls can do this that’s why I give this book recommended five star rating as it was so good Hope another part from you guys come soon thank you for such lovely books of the author will get my message and also make some books for rebel boys have done have done better so just to make sure that please give this message from my heart to all the girls in the world and also give this message to the boys also to change their mind that even girls can do anything and it is possible thank you for the wonderful book it was pleasure to read this such marvellous book thank you.

Five stars for a great book.. great illustrations and a great delivery by Amazon. I had been eyeing this book since last few months and had pre-ordered it the moment I had known about it. I ordered them for my son and also for my nephews. When we received this book, I was so pleased with the purchase. The amount paid (614 INR) seemed nothing for this fantastic book. Stories are great and so are the illustrations. We have got into this habit of replicating the illustrations after reading the story and it's working great. Only thing was, one of the few ordered books had doggy eared pages and I was pretty disappointed with that book. I must thank Amazon for resolving the issue brilliantly and not letting the customer dislike anything about the book. I was one happy customer, for sure! This is a must-have book for everyone.. Children and Adults!