A Belated Kirkus Follow-up, Featuring Aurélia Fronty, Rachel Himes, Matt Tavares, and Victoria Turnbull

— From Raphaële Frier’s Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education,
illustrated by Aurélia Fronty
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— From Rachel Himes’ Princess and the Peas
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she watched the earth fall slowly away. …”
— From Matthew Clark Smith’s Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard,
the First Woman Pilot, illustrated by Matt Tavares
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I wrote here at Kirkus at the end of March about some new picture books with multi-faceted, groundbreaking, innovative, and/or otherwise complex women of all stripes, both real and fictional.
I’m following up today with art from each book — Rachel Himes’ Princess and the Peas (Charlesbridge, April 2017); Matthew Clark Smith’s Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot, illustrated by Matt Tavares (Candlewick, March 2017); Raphaële Frier’s Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education (Charlesbridge, February 2017), illustrated by Aurélia Fronty and first published in France in 2015; and Victoria Turnbull’s Pandora (Clarion, April 2017).
And while we’re on the subject of Victoria Turnbull, I’ve got some spreads from her Kings of the Castle, coming later this month from Candlewick. Because, why not?
Enjoy!
Activist for Girls’ Education:

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the Taliban requires that beards are worn. …”
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Khpal Kor Foundation, which promotes the rights of children. …”
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Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot:

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I’m afraid not a one of y’all is fit for my son.'”
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LIGHTER THAN AIR. Text copyright © 2017 by Matthew Clark Smith. Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Matt Tavares and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
KINGS OF THE CASTLE. Copyright © 2016 by Victoria Turnbull. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
MALALA: ACTIVIST FOR GIRLS’ EDUCATION. First published in France in 2015 by Éditions Rue du monde. Copyright © 2015 Rue du monde. 2017 First US edition. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA.
PANDORA. Copyright © 2017 by Victoria Turnbull. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.
PRINCESS AND THE PEAS. Copyright © 2017 by Rachel Himes. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA.