Little Feminist Board Book Set

by Emily Kleinman, Lydia Ortiz (Illustrator)

Mudpuppy's Little Feminist Board Book Set is comprised of colorful illustrated portraits of real women who have made historical impact on the world. Illustrations by Lydia Ortiz and words by Emily Kleinman introduce children to these important people in history with images that are fun for youngsters and also realistic. The Board Book Set includes 4 mini board books (Pioneers, Artists, Leaders, and Activists.)

- Size: 4 x 4 x 4"

Genres: Childrens, Kids, Womens, Picture Books, Feminism, Nonfiction

32 pages, Board book

Published October 3, 2017

Reviews

[Scottsdale Public Library]

Bight bold illustrations of positive female role models and simple sentences like "Sally Ride explored space and showed that girls shine bright." These books are developmentally appropriate and packed full of positive messages. There are four books in the series: Artists, Activists, Leaders, and Pioneers. So cute! -Alexis S.

[Ryan and Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great beginner set for introducing babies and toddlers to strong women. It's a wonderfully diverse group.

[Logan Tunick]

Spotted this on the shelf. Luvs it

[Cindy Jiménez-Vera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful!

[Earl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute simplified intros to some powerful females. Each themed board book is about 4 feminists with one page of their illustrated image and then paired with a few words on the opposite side. I would personally seek out other board books of these kinds rather than this one but again it's a cute empowering message.

[Micah Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it.

[Jemima Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them”- Unknown.

I was sent the Little Feminist Board Box Set by Abrams&Chronicle Books in exchange for an honest review.


These four board books are the cutest thing ever!! With 16 Feminist icons and merely a sentence for each one, Kleinman perfectly captures each one. There’s four board books in this set, Artists, Pioneers, Activists and Leaders. I think Leaders was my favourite one but I do love the Artists one! The mini Frida Kahlo is adorable!!

These are perfect for anyone with a small child as they are realistic and informative. However they should be bought by anyone as they make a perfect little gift! I am definitely going to be buying my little cousin a set for her Birthday

[Anya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Our daughter loved the colours of this book fromwhen she was just a couple of weeks old. While the book texts are quite awful and boring I made up my own stories based on the real histories and facts of the pictured women. Not many 3 months olds out there who know about the Taliban I bet...But the colours were engaging to the 3-6 months old and once our daughter started to crawlor walk up to her book baskets and grab them, the small size and hard to break nature of the book made it one of her favourites to grab and walk around while pushing her push car...

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

She's too young to really understand, but that doesn't mean we can't have these conversations early on. I like that the pages just give the sentiment of what these women did because then I can explain further in my own way and as we read and reread we can have age appropriate conversations but still use the same books.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bought these for the twins & gifted them at Nina's baby shower in June of 2018. Read these to the girls while they ate dinner tonight. These were the books Everly kept bringing to me that afternoon. They were more interested in their dinner than the books :)

[Rebecca H. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love the idea, but they’re not well executed. Someone took a grown up sentence and printed it into a board book. They are not age appropriate — by that I mean comprehensible to toddlers. This was a great opportunity that was totally wasted.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely for little babies, not much text at all, super thick board books. Would be interested in more content for an older age read as well. Beautiful illustrations and very powerful to see all these brilliant and wonderful trail blazing women.

[Marie-Pier Dodier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une phrase par page/femme.

[Brigit · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know these are for children...but honestly they could’ve done a better job representing these women. Also Frida should’ve had a full-on unibrow!!! They made her look less like her iconic self.

[Edi Jane White · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping these would have just a little more information in them but they are a good start I guess.

[Barbara Mahoney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this "Little Feminist" set of board books for young girls. It highlights women who have made a difference in history.

It encourages girls to think that anything is possible!

[Aarvik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful books.

[Brie Kapina · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Alexa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very annoyed that these four books only count as one 😭

[Zoe Oliver · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Those were nice people =, so I give those a 5." -5-year-old reader

[Kristen V Farrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

So cute!

[Heather Topple · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just read these to my 5 month old son. Never too early to teach him that feminism is for everyone 🤟

[Elizabeth]

I had not realized just HOW mini these books are. Yes, each book features 4 women -- and literally each woman has an image on the lefthand page and a simple sentence split into 4 lines of text on the righthand page.

I do appreciate that each book contains a mix of races/ethnicities and nationalities -- it's not all white and/or USian women.

"Hillary Clinton ran for office and proved that girls can be in charge!" is bit rough to read after the November 2016 election -- and honestly I felt uncomfortable with the deployment of "proved" in any text (thankfully it's not all of them, but it's 1-2 per book). First of all, dominant culture will often accept exceptional members of minority/oppressed groups as exceptions without changing their mind about the capabilities of members of that group generally. And secondly, this framing implicitly privileges the dominant group -- when Lucille Ball "proved that girls can make you laugh," was that somehow new information to girls and non-binary folks whose female friends had been making them laugh for generations? I get that the text is intentionally very simple, and that other verbs the books use like "showed" have similar problems, but generally I just wish the books had found ways to highlight these women's accomplishments without positioning them as like the first of their kind.