You Belong Book Project – March Book List
March is Women’s History Month
We are very excited to kick off this month’s readings on International Womens Day! Laura Dolan one of the Co-Chairs of United Way of Buffalo & Erie County’s Women United group stopped by to kick off Women’s History Month by reading This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer by Joan Holub and Daniel Roode.
Other March readings include:
- Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison read by Jasmine Foster
- Little Feminist: Celebrating 25 Amazing Women Throughout History by Yelena Moroz Alpert read by Colleen Reedy
- An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America by Helaine Becker read by Deputy County Executive Lisa Chimera
Below you will find a specially curated list of early childhood books in celebration of Women’s History Month. Books with a * at the end are books that were read for this month’s You Belong Book Project Story Time.
You can learn more about the You Belong Book Project, or watch the You Belong Book Project Story Time videos here.
- A is for Awesome: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World by Eva Chen
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America by Helaine Becker *
- Brave Girl: Glara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel
- Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream by Crystal Hubbard
- Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
- Counting the Stars: The Story of Kathrine Johnson NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison *
- Dru Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
- Frida: My First Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
- G My Name Is Girl: A Song of Celebration from Argentina to Zambia by Dawn Masi
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli
- Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
- Hold On To Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabeck and Lee Cohen
- I am Malala Yousafzai by Brad Meltzer
- I Can Read Hockey Stories: Hayley’s Journey by Sarah Howden
- I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
- I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
- Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood
- Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
- Little Feminist: Celebrating 25 Amazing Women Throughout History by Yelena Moroz Alpert*
- Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
- Mae Among The Stars by Roda Ahmed
- Me, Frida by Amy Novesky
- Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown
- My Name is Bana by Bana Alabed
- Not All Princesses Dress in Pink by Jane Yolk
- Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise
- Sonia Sotomayor: A Little Golden Book Biography by Sylvia Lopez
- She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
- Suki’s Kimono by Chieri Uegaki
- The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story by Joseph Bruchac
- The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon by Frances Poletti and Kristina Yee
- The Paper Bag Princess Early Reader by Robert Munsch
- The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funk
- The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do by Ashley Spires
- This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer by Joan Holub and Daniel Roode*
- This Is It by Daria Peoples-Riley
- Women in Science (Board Book Edition) by Rachel Ignotovsky
- Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Kroll