Kids' Books for Women's History Month

Check out these books for kids about famous women.

Updated February 6, 2025
Carver County Library
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The green piano : how little me found music
Flack, Roberta
Paper Book
This autobiographical picture bookby the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love- it all started with a beat-uppianothat her father found in a junkyard,repaired,and paintedgreen. Growing up in a Blue Ridge...
Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
Hood, Susan
Paper Book
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Try it! : how Frieda Caplan changed the way we eat
Rockliff, Mara
Paper Book
Meet fearless Frieda Caplan--the produce pioneer who changed the way Americans eat by introducing exciting new fruits and vegetables, from baby carrots to blood oranges to kiwis--in this brightly illustrated nonfiction picture book! In 1956, Frieda Caplan started working at the...
Jovita wore pants : the story of a Mexican freedom fighter
Salazar, Aida
Ebook
Nina : a story of Nina Simone
Todd, Traci N.
Paper Book
A 2022 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree!   This luminous, defining picture book biography illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of acclaimed singer Nina Simone and her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy. ...
Sarah and the big wave : the true story of the first woman to surf Mavericks
Tsui, Bonnie
Paper Book
Have you ever seen a big wave? One that's 20, 30, 40, even 50 feet tall? Here's a better question: would you ever surf a big wave? Sarah Gerhardt did and this is her story. Full of thrills and scientific facts, Sarah and the Big Wave is about the first woman to surf Mavericks, a break known as...

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