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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (New Edition)

100+ Tales of Extraordinary Women

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On sale Mar 04, 2025 | 3 Hours and 46 Minutes | 9798217069590

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“My favorite part of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is how many extraordinary women Rebel Girls have opened up to me and my two daughters.”—Drew Barrymore

A contemporary classic, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the extraordinary true stories of 100+ heroic women.

The book that changed bedtime is back with a brand-new, updated edition featuring 22 new stories written by best-selling author – and original Rebel Girl – Elena Favilli.

This revised edition features 22 new stories about women and girls across 70+ professions and over 40 countries, including:

  • Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
  • Judy Blume, activist
  • Michelle Yeoh, actor
  • Taylor Swift, singer
  • Melanie Perkins, entrepreneur

Listeners will marvel at the accomplishments of well-known women like Cleopatra, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Frida Kahlo, and they’ll discover the powerful stories of Colombian spy Policarpa Salavarrieta, Afghani rapper Sonita Alizadeh, Sierra-Leonean ballerina Michaela dePrince, Mexican doctor Matilde Montoya, and American surgeon Mary Edwards Walker.

Each story in this collection is written in the signature Rebel Girls style of storytelling: a biographical, real-world fairy tale, where women are the heroes of their own stories.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
ignited a publishing movement when it was first published in 2016. The book is now available in 50 languages and found in more than 110+ countries.


* This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF that features the "Rebels Throughout History" timeline and the “Write Your Story” and “Draw Your Portrait” exercises.
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls

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“My favorite part of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is how many extraordinary women Rebel Girls have opened up to me and my two daughters.”—Drew Barrymore

A contemporary classic, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the extraordinary true stories of 100+ heroic women.

The book that changed bedtime is back with a brand-new, updated edition featuring 22 new stories written by best-selling author – and original Rebel Girl – Elena Favilli.

This revised edition features 22 new stories about women and girls across 70+ professions and over 40 countries, including:

  • Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
  • Judy Blume, activist
  • Michelle Yeoh, actor
  • Taylor Swift, singer
  • Melanie Perkins, entrepreneur

Listeners will marvel at the accomplishments of well-known women like Cleopatra, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Frida Kahlo, and they’ll discover the powerful stories of Colombian spy Policarpa Salavarrieta, Afghani rapper Sonita Alizadeh, Sierra-Leonean ballerina Michaela dePrince, Mexican doctor Matilde Montoya, and American surgeon Mary Edwards Walker.

Each story in this collection is written in the signature Rebel Girls style of storytelling: a biographical, real-world fairy tale, where women are the heroes of their own stories.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
ignited a publishing movement when it was first published in 2016. The book is now available in 50 languages and found in more than 110+ countries.


* This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF that features the "Rebels Throughout History" timeline and the “Write Your Story” and “Draw Your Portrait” exercises.

Author

Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls

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