“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell barring Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking
Lee & Low Books is proud to publish stories of women who refused to be silenced.
Stories of women who persisted:
Rosa Parks
Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Lesson plan, provided by Achieve the Core, a Student Achievement Partners website designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core State Standards
Wangari Maathai
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Lesson plan created by Africa Access, founded to help inform the public about quality K–12 books on Africa
- Reading and craft tips created by the staff and partners of Reading to Kids, a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading
Augusta Savage
In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
Anna May Wong
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Video interview with author Paula Yoo
- Reading and craft tips created by the staff and partners of Reading to Kids, a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading
Melba Doretta Liston
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
- Reading guide and learning activities for Little Melba and Her Big Trombone created by the Education Division at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its Book of the Month program
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Little Melba playlist
Harriet Bailey, mother of Frederick Douglass
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
Marcenia Lyle Stone, “Toni Stone”
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
- Read Aloud with actors Kevin Costner and Jillian Estell, created and provided by Storyline Online, an interactive children’s literacy website of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Field trip ideas and activities for ballparks
Florence Mills
Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
EdNah New Rider Weber
Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood
- Lee & Low Discussion Questions
Irena Sendler
- Lee & Low Discussion Questions
Maria Tallchief, Annie Jump Cannon, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marian Anderson, and Ynés Mexía
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Common Core lesson plan
Pura Belpré
Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
- Poster featuring The Storyteller’s Candle and celebrating all librarians
- Common Core lesson plan
- Book discussion and activity guide created by Jenni Arvin and Sylvia Garcia with Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo, provided by the University of Alabama School of Library and Informational Studies
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
Women of the Chipko Andolan Movement
- Discussion questions for women in STEM
- Lee & Low Teacher’s Guide
Hiromi Suzuki
- Activity to make sushi at home
Ching Yeung Russell
- Lee & Low Discussion Questions
