Good night stories for rebel girls: 100 Immigrant women who changed the world provides one-page short bios on a collection of courageous women from many sectors throughout history. The courage and persistence in each story is shared and might just be the needed support for a young women to chart her story and future in the world. Each bio also has original artwork from over 70 illustrators and some great quotes.

I requested and received an e-ARC of this book from Elena Favilli and Rebel Girls through NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I have not read the first or second Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls but after reading the third installment about 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed The World, I am going to read them. This was a fantastic book documenting the stories of 100 amazing women. I learned a lot about the accomplishments of these women and their tenacity. I think this book will inspire girls to dream big and work hard no matter where you are from.

Yet another amazing group of women. We loved learning how some changed our lives. Most I had never heard of, which makes me sad to think many others haven't either. Just goes to show how much books like this are needed.

I found this almost more interesting than the original book for ‘rebel girls’. There are 100 mini biographies about women born in one country who have achieved amazing and marvellous things in a different land. The exciting things are the range of achievements; from a Nobel prize winning physicist to an Amazon explorer to a champion ice hockey player and the fact that the stories are true.

Definitely an inspirational read, written in a clear style, with a final blank page ready for the reader to complete, then a glossary for words highlighted in the text. I liked the quotes put with the lovely, colourful illustrations. It’s a very inclusive book and the 70 illustrators are all credited at the back.

This would be a keeper on my shelf.

Thank you to the publisher for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Really sweet, very short stories. I wouldn't necessarily call them "good night stories" but they are wonderful little biographies of women who changed the world.

A fantastic addition to the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series! Each bio is one page with another page with an image and quote. While not all the art was to my taste, I recognize that this artistic diversity is critical and more a reflection on myself than the quality of the work. The best part of this book is that there is such a wide array of women. While there are many featured who are commonly known, there are many more who may not be. I look forward to more from this series.

This book belongs to the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, but the concept here is a bit different. This volume focuses on immigrant women, who for some reason or another left their birth country and moved elsewhere. Some did it out of necessity, others just because they were looking for new opportunities. The women included in the book are from all over the world and have very different professions. The author really did an amazing job and every illustration is breathtaking as always. It's a really nice book to read even if you aren't a child anymore or don't have children yourself. I strongly recommend it!

When Favilli and Cavallo's GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS first became a hit a couple of years ago, I thought the idea very endearing, and made a note to check them out properly after flipping through one in a book shop. When this new installment in the series, focused on immigrant women past and present, became available as an instant download, I jumped at the opportunity.

This is the first book that Cavallo did not contribute to, it is solely Favilli's work. The one hundred women included all left their countries of birth for different reasons—some to seek new opportunities, some out of necessity, some moved more than once. The women included were diverse in every sense of the word: From all over the world, and with all sorts of backgrounds and occupations, ranging from scientists, to athletes (a bit too many for my taste), businesswomen, politicians, artists, and activists.

Of the one hundred women included, I was familiar with about a dozen. I didn't keep count, but I'd say that most were contemporary women still alive and active today, and only a small fraction historical figures—I suppose the women who paved the way in more significant ways (I'm thinking of real watershed moments; big scientific discoveries, the suffrage, Civil Rights Movement, etc.) have already been included in the previous volumes, or didn't fit what this volume sets out to do, which is to teach children that people have worth and potential to achieve great things no matter where they came from, their funny accent, imperfect speech, or the color of their skin.

Being Good Night stories, all the chapters begin with a "Once Upon a Time..." or "Once there was a girl...", and the text is very simplified, and meant to be appropriate and inspirational for young children. Concepts that may be new to a child and put a parent in a difficult position, such as "racism", "discrimination", "segregation", "refugee", "prejudice", "undocumented", or "holocaust", have footnotes and are succinctly explained in a glossary. I somehow can't see a child who'd enjoy a book like this be satisfied with those short explanations, but they might be good gateways for more in-depth, educational conversations though. The hard topics covered however definitely didn't jibe with the easy texts, and I feel that a child mature enough to engage with these mature topics would have a higher reading level and find these too simplified and thus unsatisfying.

It's a cute book, but I was most certainly not the target audience, and before buying this one, I'd probably look at the earlier volumes covering less obscure women—unless, of course, this is a gift for an immigrant child who'd be inspired by these particular stories.

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NOTE: The e-ARC I received in exchange for an honest review did not include the illustrations, which are a big part of this series. The digital copy I accessed was also poorly formatted, with the quotes from the end of a chapter blending into the title and first paragraph of the next, making it hard or impossible to read. These issues did not have a big impact on my rating, only on my enjoyment.

I was so excited to see this new installment in the Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls collection. This book makes my ESOL teacher heart happy. So many of my students will see themselves represented somewhere. I also love how the 100 women challenge our idea of immigrants being a monolith and the way the immigration narrative centralizes the US -- several of the women in this book actually emigrated from the US to others countries.

On top of all that, the illustrations are beautiful and the text is approachable and even has a little vocabulary building. I will definitely add this book to my classroom shelves.

THIS is the book that should be on every young (and old) persons bookcase! I really truly believe (especially as a new mum to a little girl myself) that these women are so underrated - Women have been doing AMAZING things, making AMAZING changes and need to be recognised more for it. Its a sad reflection on our predominantly male (and in my opinion, bizarre, unsteady and bonkers) world most of these women were new names for me to hear, as with the previous two books. I will definitely be buying a physical copy of this and recommending it to as many people as I possibly can, especially for the Christmas present season - Thank you Elena - please keep them coming - I'm loving being educated and I can't wait to teach my daughter all about these courageous women.

This book was received as an ARC from Rebel Girls in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

This book is inspiring to the max, I love the descriptions for each women and I recognized a lot of the women displayed in the book and there were even some women I was not familiar with but after I read their descriptions in the book, I am now a fan. Also, I am a sucker for brilliant artwork and the portraits were displayed and made beautifully, I also loved the unique color combinations for some of them just like if they were telling us their story themselves. This will be a great reference book for the biography projects our teachers do for the community.

We will consider adding this title to our JNon-Fiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley for my electronic ARC in exchange for my honest review. This book will be published October 13, 2020.

This is the third book in the series. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women was published in 2016 and volume 2 in 2018. This latest book focuses on rebel girls who are immigrants.

I thought this was such a great idea - empowering young girls via bedtime stories to pursue their dreams despite all odds. I’m unclear what age group is targeted here but the short summaries are pretty simplistic. And yet the subject matter would be challenging for young girls: abolitionist, discrimination, refugee, prejudice, Holocaust to name a few.

My other big complaint is this book did not transfer well to a Kindle. The formatting was off, the illustrations didn’t display and it was hard to read.

2 stars for content but 1 Star for Kindle formatting issues.

Original review posted on GoodReads.

This book is an excellent compendium of stories for "rebel girls" but also for anyone interested in learning more about a variety of accomplished women immigrants.  The book can be read in order or at random.  For each woman her area of interest is listed.  To name just some of the women included, there are Lupita Nyong'o, an actress; Madeleine Albright, politician; Frieda Belinfante, cellist and conductor;Burke Harris, pediatrician and so many more, all the way to the end of the alphabet.  Each short, engaging entry includes an illustration, a quote and a short biography. 


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this inspiring collection that will remind girls that they can be anyone they choose.  All opinions are my own.

I just really love these books and this one was absolutely no exception. I think it's a great read and also accecible for children to be read out loud. The art is absolutely amazing. I love the fact that there are so many different artists in this book, it truly represent the diversity of the women talked about in the book as well. These are just so inspirational and fun to read. Highly recommend!

I thought this was an interesting storybook for sure! I like how there was an attempt to simply history for younger children, so they could understand it better. I thought in some cases some of the histories were too simplified and in other cases, there was too specific information. I like the empowerment focus and how this book was focused on immigrant women. One issue I have is that there were so many immigrants at the beginning of the book that migrated to the US, Canada, or the UK, which I understand happens but it somewhat seems like was going to be the focus. It was nice that towards the end of the storybook there were immigrants going to countries other than the US, Canada, or the UK. There was a nice mix of figures that are still alive and some from the past. In a way, I wonder how the book would have read if it went in chronological order instead of alphabetical order. I think it would have been cool if the author also did the series by century, so immigrant women in the 19th century, 20th century, etc. so they could have an intro with more historical context of that period to help spread even more education. Overall, this would be a good read to young girls because it will help them to see themselves represented in history.

Everything about this book was perfection! I love how this book talks about strong, influential women ranging from doctors to activists to ice skaters and even Rihanna! I appreciated how every lady had her own drawn photo of herself and the artist’s name was included with each one as well as a list of the artists at the end. Another added touch I liked was including the birth dates and places they were from and immigrated to at the bottom. I enjoyed how accessible and easy this book was to read. I can see myself getting this for a friend or family member as a gift and adding their own story to the back of the book. This was truly inspiring!

The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the third instalment in the bestselling "Good Night Stories" series and it focuses on 100 great women who emigrated from their birth country to another one. I think this one is a very informative and interesting book.
I enjoyed every single story and I'm so happy to had the opportunity to found out more about women I already know and others I completely discovered thanks to this book.
This is for sure an empowering and inspirational reading, I strongly recommend it!

This is an excellent addition to this series. There is a good mix of immigrant women who have made a difference in a range of fields from sport, writing, activism and science. i really liked that different artists did the illustrations for each, it gave them all an extra feel of individuality. Very readable and a good introduction to some fascinating women. definitely one for the library service.

I received the ARC copy of the book from Netgally in exchange for an honest review.

This is the first of the Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls that I read, I only read a couple of the stand alone books and I absolutely love them all. The writing style is appropriate for the target audience. It's easy to follow and has some high lighted words that you can find at the glossary at the end of the book and includes some other activities. Absolutely love the concept and idea behind reading about women, but reading about immigrats who have succeeded in their field make you feel hopeful.

One of my favourite parts of the book is the selection of people from athletes to fashion designers, from scientists to activist and from all over the world, also not everybody goes to the United States of America, some other go to Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Japan...

The art is very colourful but eye pleasing, even when you know the art was done by at least 70 different female artists there's still a sense of unity through out the book.

Nightly recommend this book and I'm going to get few copies to give to family and friends.

Another new set of inspirational bed time stories, this time featuring girls and women who have left their birth countries, for a variety of reasons.
Personally, I preferred the stories about the unknown women rather than the famous women - it was interesting to read more down to earth stories, which felt achievable, as well as the super world-changing stories. I liked that there were recent stories, as well as historical stories, and across a broad range of areas from food and activism, to maths and ornithology.
There are glorious, colourful illustrations throughout, by numerous artists.
The stories are all short, so easily read as a quick bedtime story, or to get reluctant readers engaged in giving it a go themselves.