March has flown by and we are coming to the end of Women’s History Month. I decided to do my last post featuring women in the fields or art, writing, and performing arts. It has been fun scrolling through all of the amazing picture book biographies and narrowing down my choices to ten each week.
If you are interested in the previous posts celebrating Women’s History Month, you can locate them below.
Woman Suffragists & The Right to Vote, click here.
Women & Civil Rights, click here.
Women & Science, click here.
For this week, here are some of my favorite books celebrating women artists, writers, and performers…
A is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z by John Robert Allman, Illustrated by Peter Emmerich (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2019)
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, Illustrated by Julie Morstad (Tundra Books, 2019)
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks by Alice Faye Duncan, Illustrated by Xia Gordon (Sterling Books, 2019)
Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington by Michelle Markel, Illustrated by Amanda Hall (Balzer & Bray, 2019)
Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff, Illustrated by Simona Ciraolo (Chronicle Books, 2018)
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire by Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, Illustrated by Brigette Barrager (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017)
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Ann Cole Lowe by Deborah Blumenthal, Illustrated by Laura Freeman (Little Bee Books, 2017)
The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs by Fiona Robinson (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019
Strange Fruit by Gary Golio, Illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb (Millbrook, 2017
Firebird by Misty Copeland, Christopher Myers (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2014)
Look for these at your local indie bookstore or community library.
Don’t forget to link up your nonfiction reviews…