Girls of the World: Doing More Than Ever Before

by Linsey Davis, Michael Tyler, Lucy Fleming (Illustrator)

Overview

Encourage children to use their voices, talents, and intelligence to help the world and raise awareness of girls and all the amazing things they do! An inspiration for readers of all ages, New York Times bestseller Girls of the World: Doing More Than Ever Before calls attention to the truth that it’s never too soon to become aware of and speak up about things that are important to you. Now is the perfect time for girls to show the world just who they are and what they’re capable of!

Written by ABC News anchor and bestselling author Linsey Davis, together with co-author Michael Tyler, Girls of the World invites us to celebrate the equality and fairness we should all experience. It encourages girls to be strong, brave, and curious about the world and their place in it.

Girls of the World:

• Features inspiring, motivating rhymes from Emmy award-winning ABC News anchor and New York Times bestselling authors Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler
• Includes whimsical illustrations by bestselling artist Lucy Fleming
• Is a great read-aloud for children ages 4-8
• Has a message that celebrates equality, fairness, and is meant to spur girls (and boys) on to be brave and take their place in a challenging world
• Concludes with a personal note from Linsey Davis

Look for additional inspirational picture books by Linsey Davis, including:

• One Big Heart
• The World Is Awake
• Stay This Way Forever
• How High is Heaven
• Smallest Spot of a Dot

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310749660
Publisher:	Zonderkidz
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	25,306
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Linsey Davis is a New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist. She anchors World News Tonight on Sunday as well as ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live’s first-ever streaming evening newscast. She is a correspondent for World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline and is also the bestselling author of several children’s books including The Smallest Spot of a Dot, The World Is Awake, One Big Heart, Stay This Way Forever, and How High is Heaven. Linsey lives in New York with her husband and son, who is her biggest inspiration. You can follow her on Instagram @linseytdavis.

Michael Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, writer and native Chicagoan whose other titles include The Skin You Live In and Mirror Face. He has partnered with Discovery Education on SEL and DEI curriculum for students globally, and has addressed forums for The King Center, Clinton Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Beyond Differences.

Lucy Fleming, a New York Times bestselling illustrator, has been an avid doodler and bookworm since childhood. She never quite grew out of having her head in the clouds, daydreaming. She specializes in children’s book illustration where her love for designing quirky characters meets her passion for storytelling. Lucy lives and works in a small town in England with a cup of ginger tea in hand and her cat close by.

Editorial Reviews

2024-01-20
Calling all girls: Stand up and be counted!

Stepping up and speaking up, doing what needs to be done, expressing themselves, dreaming big dreams: This is what girls do and what they’re capable of. Girls are out there and in the forefront of things, both individually and collectively. You’d better believe it’s a “great truth all people should know. / The girls of the world are ready to go!” This uplifting, empowering book, expressed in jaunty verse, depicts different girls who are diverse in skin color, hair color and style, race and ethnicity, religion, and physical ability (two use wheelchairs; one uses a prosthetic leg and crutches). These girls actively engage in a variety of activities: caring for and cleaning up the earth; imagining future professions, from mechanic to newscaster; painting; publicly voicing opinions and ideas; and, notably, uniting with other girls so as to affirm each other’s strengths and bolster belief in themselves. Girls would seem to be the primary readership here, but young boys might well learn to better understand and respect a thing or two about their female siblings, relatives, classmates, and neighbors. The colorful illustrations, which portray wide-eyed, mostly smiling girls and young women on the path to success, are cheery and expressive.

You go, girls—read, be you, stay excellent, and achieve! (author’s note) (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews