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I just love the Rebel Girls series! Each book is full of inspirational women designed to empower young readers. I love how diverse the women they choose to highlight are. They come from different backgrounds, live in different countries, and include different races and nationalities. The diversity is so important for young readers, and the inclusion ensures that every child who gets their hands on a Rebel Girls book will see themselves reflected in someone featured.

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Thank you so much netgalley providing an arc!
I really like the worldbuilding, and how the author can create a world that has the capability of making us vicariously live through it. I feel like the introduction was a bit too slow-paced for me. The characters are fairly interesting.
Henceforth, it was quite a good read.

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Wow, what a phenomenal book! This installation of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls does not disappoint! This beautiful collection features a variety of mother and daughter duos who have made or are still making a positive difference in the world in a multitude of areas. It details their careers and actions they've taken in a succinct, readable way. This book is also beautifully illustrated. Children will love this and be so inspired!

Thank you NetGalley and Rebel Girls for providing this ARC.

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I purchased Bedtime Stories for Rebel Girls for my oldest daughter a few years ago, and it remains one of her favorite books to read over & over again. I was excited to learn a new book was coming out soon from Rebel Girls, this time about powerful Mom and Daughter pairs!

I love these stories and how they are written and illustrated. At one page each, the stories are perfect to read 1-2 at a time and then discuss together. The illustrations are beautiful and I love they they feature work from women and girls around the world. At the end, there are some prompts and activities to write your very own story.

I’m excited to share this with both of my daughters. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this inspiring read!

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Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs is the latest installment in this inspiring series. Despite coming from all different fields, the women celebrated in this collection all have one thing in common - they are mother and daughter. Some of the women featured are mainstream celebrities who most have heard of (Beyonce & Blue Ivy), but there are many women from different fields I didn’t know about. Like all of the other Rebel Girls books I have read there is a great variety of background. There are celebrities, scientists, entrepreneurs, etc. Each story is accompanied by an illustration, also created by a woman, in a variety of different art styles. The artists are also from all around the world and their art is influenced by that.

It’s always a treat to read a Rebel Girls anthology and this was no different. I loved reading and learning about all of these mothers & daughters.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy.

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The latest review-proof book from the Rebel Girls industry follows the form of the previous gazillion – full-page illustration, as long as it's by a female artist, accompanying a brief non-fiction page about a woman or women who have gone their small way to change the world for the better, and often in ways that men won't or cannot. Here, however, the unique twist is that these are mother-daughter families as subjects, and in starting with Beyonce Knowles and her daughter it quite immediately shoots itself in the foot. OK, said child has been on a Grammy-winning record, but there are about two hundred of them every year and she's hardly managed to impact much at all.

Luckily there are much better pairings to come. The Pankhurts smashed lots of innocent shop owners' windows en route to getting the vote, the Curies suffered from working with radium and polonium but managed to save countless lives, and so on. There is a sense here that the Rebel Girls have got their fingers in so many pies, so anyone from Venezuelans showing off their country to Indigenous Canadian throat singers can get to feature. There is also the sense here that some of these stories I should have known about – I had no idea Julie Andrews and her daughter wrote kids' books together, nor that Prue Leith was an advocate for adopting Cambodian orphans such as she did.

Books that nobody can fail to learn from generally get high marks in my estimation, and this is definitely one of them, despite the desperation at including all and sundry at times.

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