Celebrate Women's History Month with a Book Every Day of the Year
March is Women’s History Month. Just like the contributions of African Americans, the contributions of women shouldn’t be taught just during one month. Celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of life all year long with this list of 180 children’s books titles - yes, one for every day of the school year.
Whether you’re looking for mentor texts for guided reading, popular kids titles for close reading activities, or just the best kids books to celebrate school holidays, this list is for you. It includes several categories of celebrated women including artists, athletes, authors, creators, scientists, and more.
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Women’s History: Artists
Bloom: A Story Of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli, By Kyo Maclear And Julie Morstad
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis, by Robbin Gourley
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois, by Amy Novesky
Coco and the Little Black Dress, by Annemarie van Haeringen
Danza! Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet, by Duncan Tonatiuh
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth, by Barb Rosenstock
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe, by Deborah Blumenthal
Frida, by Jonah Winter
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, by Joyce Sidman
In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage, by Alan Schroeder
Independence Cake : A Revolutionary Confection Inspired by Amelia Simmons, Whose True History Is Unfortunately Unknown, by Deborah Hopkinson
Just Being Audrey, by Margaret Cardillo
Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter, by Barbara Herkert
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat, by Susanna Reich
My Name is Georgia, by Jeanette Winter
Patience Wright: American Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy, by Pegi Deitz Shea
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire, by Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville
Rosa’s Animals: The Story of Rosa Bonheur and Her Painting Menagerie, by Maryann Macdonald
Ruth Asawa: A Sculpting Life, by Joan Schoettler
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story, by Paula Yoo
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova, by Laurel Snyder
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity, by Sarah Suzuki
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!, by Shana Corey
Women’s History: Athletes
America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, by David A. Adler
Anybody's Game: Kathryn Johnston, the First Girl to Play Little League Baseball, by Heather Lang
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map, by Sue Macy
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream, by Crystal Hubbard
Dancing in the Wings, Debbie Allen
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon, by Kim Chaffee
Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics, by Jean L.S. Patrick
Martina & Chrissie: The Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports, by Phil Bildner
Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!, by Shana Corey
Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen, by Marissa Moss
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still, by Karlin Gray
Nothing But Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson, by Sue Stauffacher
Proud: Living My American Dream (Young Readers), by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman Olympic High-Jump Champion, by Heather Lang
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville, by Pat Zietlow Miller
She’s Got This, by Laurie Hernandez
Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm, by Sue Macy
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman, by Kathleen Krull
Women’s History: Creators, Innovators, and Scientists
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer, by Diane Stanley
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, by Helaine Becker
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes, by Julia Finley Mosca
The Elephant Scientist, by Caitlin O’Connell, Donna M. Jackson
Florence Nightingale, by Demi
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman, by Louise Borden, Mary Kay Kroeger
The Girl with the Mind for Math, by Julia Finley Mosca
How to Build A Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine by: Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles, by Patricia Valdez
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, by Claire A. Nivola
Mae Among the Stars, by Roda Ahmed
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic, by Robert Burleigh
Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented, by Tanya Lee Stone
Solving The Puzzle Under The Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, by Robert Burleigh
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning, by Laurence Anholt and Sheila Moxley
Swimming With Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark, by Heather Lang
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever, by H. Joseph Hopkins
Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs, by Susan Hughes
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, by Jeanette Winter
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, by Tanya Lee Stone
The World Is Not A Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid, by Jeanette Winter
Women’s History: Historical Sheroes
Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride, by Pam Munoz Ryan
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909, by Michelle Markel
Coretta Scott, by Ntozake Shange
Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers, by Sarah E. Warren
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba, by Margarita Engle
Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala, by Lina Maslo
Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller, by Doreen Rappaport
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette Daisy Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure by Shana Corey
The Heroine of the Titanic, by Joan W. Bios
The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams, by Tanya Lee Stone
I Look Up To... Michelle Obama, by Anna Membrino
Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage - Young Readers Edition, by Tilar J. Mazzeo, Mary Cronk Ferrell (adapter)
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i, by Fay Stanley
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford
No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Kathleen Krull
Oprah: The Little Speaker, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Dee Romito
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré, by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Pocahontas: Princess of the New World, by Kathleen Krull
Queen of the Falls, by Chris Van Allsburg
Rosa, by Nikki Giovanni
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh
She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, by Jan Godown Annino
Susanna of the Alamo: A True Story, by John Jakes
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality, by Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan, by Anne Renaud
Turning Pages: My Life Story, by Sonia Sotomayor
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, by Carole Boston Weatherford
What Do You Do With A Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, by Chris Barton
When Jackie Saved Grand Central: The True Story of Jacqueline Kennedy's Fight for an American Icon, by Natasha Wing
Who Was Princess Diana?, by Ellen Labrecque
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind, by Cynthia Grady
Women’s History: Literary Figures
Agatha Christie (Little People, Big Dreams), by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Bethany Hegedus
Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko, by Setsuo Yazaki (Foreword by), Misuzu Kaneko
the Big Box, by Toni Morrison
The Brontës: Children of the Moors, by Mick Manning
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
Emily, by Michael Bedard
House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery, by Liz Rosenberg
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, by Mac Barnett
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile, by Gloria Houston
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children, by Jan Pinborough
My Name is Gabriela: The Life of Gabriela Mistral, by Monica Brown
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl, by Deborah Hopkinson
Phillis's Big Test, by Catherine Clinton
Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by: William Anderson
She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein, by Lynn Fulton
Someone Like Me, by Patricia MacLachlan
Willa: The Story of Willa Cather, an American Writer, by Amy Ehrlich
Virginia Wolf, by Kyo Maclear
Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw, by Deborah Kogan Ray
Who Is Judy Blume?, by Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ
Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, by Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin
Women’s History: Musicians
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music, by Margarita Engle
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, by Patricia Hruby Powell
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten, by Laura Veirs
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens, by Nina Nolan
Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist, by Q. L. Pearce, Gina Capaldi
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald, by Roxane Orgill
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song, by Gary Golio
Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz, by Patricia Hruby Powell
Sweethearts of Rhythm, by Marilyn Nelson
When Marian Sang, by Pam Munoz Ryan
Who Is Dolly Parton?, by True Kelly
Who Was Aretha Franklin?, by Nico Medina
Who Was Selena?, by Max Bisantz, Kate Bisantz, Who HQ
Strong Female Characters
Ada Twist, Scientist, by Andrea Beaty
Amazing Grace, by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure, by Robert D. San Souci
Firebird, by Misty Copeland
The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story, by Joseph Bruchac and Anna Vojtech
The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika L. Sanchez
Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai
Journey, by Aaron Becker
Keep Climbing, Girls, by Beah E. Richards
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Milly and the Macy's Parade, by Shana Corey
Mirette on the High Wire, by Emily Arnold McCully
Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney
The Most Magnificent Thing, by Ashley Spires
The Paper Bag Princess, Robert Munsch
Pemba Sherpa, by Olga Cossi
Rosie Revere, Engineer, by Andrea Beaty
Roxaboxen, by Alice McLerran
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, by Patty Lovell
Suki’s Kimono, by Chieri Uegaki
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad, by Henry Cole
Women’s History: Collections
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World, by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Anthology of Amazing Women: Trailblazers Who Dared to Be Different, by Sandra Lawrence
Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote, by Kirsten Gillibrand
Fiesta Femenina: Celebrating Women in Mexican Folklore, by Mary-Joan Gerson and Maya Christina Gonzalez
Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space, by Libby Jackson
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women, by Catherine Thimmesh
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Books 1-2: 200 Tales of Extraordinary Women, by Francesca Cavallo
HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World, by Katherine Halligan
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly, Winifred Conkling
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, by Cokie Roberts
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World, by Vashti Harrison
Players in Pigtails, by Shana Corey
Rad American Women A-Z, by Kate Schatz
Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women, by Cheryl Harness
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World, by Susan Hood
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, by Chelsea Clinton
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII, by Sally Deng
Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20, by Jennifer Calvert
What Would She Do? 25 True Stories of Trailblazing Rebel Women, by Kay Woodward
Women Daredevils, by Julie Cummins
Women Explorers: Perils, Pistols, and Petticoats, by Julia Cummins
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed The World, by Rachel Ignotofsky
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win, by Rachel Ignotofsky
