Tanya Lee Stone, Viking, $19.99 (130p) ISBN 978-0-670-01187-2
On the heels of Barbie's 50th anniversary in 2009, Stone (Almost Astronauts) delivers a cultural-history-as-biography of Barbie, "arguably the most famous doll in the world." Really two biographies in one, the book explores the lives of both the...
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Tanya Lee Stone. Candlewick, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5117-6
Stone (Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream) opens with an enticing question, “What is it like to jump out of an airplane?” The answer, which lets readers imagine doing just that as a paratrooper, will immediately draw them into this...
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Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Gerald Kelley, Illustrator , illus. by Gerald Kelley. Penguin/Price Stern Sloan $4.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8431-2570-2
Putting readers in the audience of a school play, cartoon children enact a rhyming ABC Thanksgiving story, dressed in the clothing of the colonists and Native Americans and set against a backdrop of scenery and stage props. Along the way, the kids...
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Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Marjorie Priceman. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9048-2
“You might find this hard to believe, but there once was a time when girls weren’t allowed to become doctors,” opens this smart and lively biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America. Stone develops Blackwell’s personality...
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Tanya Lee Stone with Girl Rising. Random/Lamb, $22.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-51146-8
Stone (Courage Has No Color) delivers a frank, hard-hitting exploration of why some 62 million girls worldwide don’t attend school, collaborating with the team behind the 2013 documentary Girl Rising, which spurred a global campaign devoted to...
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Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Marjorie Priceman. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-299-8
In a vibrant follow-up to Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? (about Elizabeth Blackwell), Stone explores the life of Ada Lovelace, whose imagination rivaled that of her poet father, Lord Byron, to the chagrin of her mother. Lovelace found a kindred...
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Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Steven Salerno. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-168-7
Stone (Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream) summarizes the sometimes contentious history of the ever-popular board game Monopoly. Lizzie Magie Phillips developed and patented its precursor, the Landlord’s Game, in 1903 to focus attention...
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Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Boris Kulikov, Illustrator , illus. by Boris Kulikov. Viking $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-06268-3
Stone (Elizabeth Leads the Way
) gives top billing to a minor but well-chosen aspect of Alexander (Sandy) Calder's distinguished career in a biography that kids can easily connect with. Her Sandy has not yet invented the mobile, but has...
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Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Kathryn Brown. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9049-9
Vowing from an early age to improve the lives of the impoverished, Addams established a settlement home, Hull House, in Chicago in 1889, creating a community refuge. The desperation of the poor is evident in their anguished grimaces as they vie for...
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Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Rebecca Gibbon, Illustrator , illus. by Rebecca Gibbon. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7903-6
Beginning with a direct address—“What would you do if someone told you.../ your voice doesn't matter/ because you are a girl?”—Stone (Amelia Earhart
) fires up readers with a portrait of the 19th-century feminist...
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Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Margeaux Lucas, Illustrator Price Stern Sloan $4.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8431-0238-3
Another paperback Holiday Alphabet Book, P Is for Passover by Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Margeaux Lucas, features die-cut pages shaped to accentuate the cover art, an otherwise unexceptional rendering of a fancy goblet, egg, matzoh, etc., on a...
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Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Margaret A. Weitekamp, Foreword by . Candlewick $24.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4502-1
Enlivened by numerous b&w and color photographs, this thorough book takes readers back to the early 1960s to tell the story of 13 women who underwent a battery of physical endurance tests (including hours spent in a deprivation tank) and...
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