Girls Are Best
  • Published: 2 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9781862304291
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

Girls Are Best

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From the co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, actor, comedian, writer, presenter, producer and all-round national treasure Sandi Toksvig, this interesting, funny book is full of facts, tales and information on women who changed the world.

It has never been more important to remember the girls and women who were written out of history. Just because we don't know about them and aren't taught about them in schools, it doesn't mean they weren't there. They achieved great things, concocted wonderful inventions and won battles. In this book, Sandi Toksvig tells us about the sheroes that have been ignored or overlooked, despite the fact that they changed our world.

Perfect for fans of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls and Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, this is the book to show young people that anything is possible.
  • Published: 2 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9781862304291
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Sandi Toksvig

Following a first-class degree from Cambridge, Sandi Toksvig went into the theatre, where she both wrote and performed before becoming one of the founder members of the Comedy Store Players. She is well known for her television and radio work, as a presenter, writer and actor.

Also by Sandi Toksvig

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A Slice of the Moon
Super-Saver Mouse To The Rescue
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Hitler's Canary
The Troublesome Tooth Fairy
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Praise for Girls Are Best

The book to buy for daughters . . . It would make a fine stocking filler with its lively, entertaining, illustrated snippets about the great women in history and the restrictions that they overcame, and will arm readers for arguments about gender equality

Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times

A little ego-boost for the girls . . . a reminder, from the Bayeux Tapestry to gladiatrices, no less, of women's achievements, told in Sandi's trademark zany, accessible style

Irish Independent

There's a mass of facts and information of all kinds . . . The result is a book which will make girls realise that anything is possible - and that women have already done most of everything already!

Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading

My grandchildren will be getting this in their stockings . . . It's funny and full of facts that may surprise parents too. In a world of hollow celebrity it is a timely polemic that warms my feminist heart

Sheila Hancock, The Times

Would make fascinating reading for men too . . . Girls are Best is packed with fascinating facts with which to wow friends. It is an education and a revelation, a great book to dip in and out of and to learn from

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