City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, San Francisco, published its first children's book last year: Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History... and Our Future! by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl (reviewed here). Now City Lights is helping other bookstores hold kid's events for Women's History Month in March with a guide based on Rad American Women A-Z, which highlights the contributions of female leaders.
Some suggestions for group activities: "Read a profile of one or two of the women featured in the book. Ask kids to either write and/or talk about a rad woman in their life. Share a video from our 'Rad American Women A-Z' series." This video series, available on the City Lights blog, features "contemporary Rad women" reading profiles from the book, including, most recently, two artists reading "G Is for the Grimke Sisters." Another video highlights two members of the Radical Monarchs, a club for young women of color, reading "X Is for the Women Whose Names We Don't Know."
