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A Women's March Story
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Women's March with this delightful multigenerational picture book about female empowerment.
Lina notices her grandmother knitting with pink yarn and soon learns that she’s making special hats to wear at an important march to celebrate women and their rights. Even though she sometimes feels small, Lina learns how to knit her own pink hat, and her confidence begins to build. When Lina and her family join the Women’s March in Washington, DC, she is energized by the crowd and the sea of pink hats. It’s amazing to see so many people all knitted together! And as Lina marches, she feels much bigger than she ever has before.
Celebrate the importance of the Women’s March with young children in Virginia Zimmerman’s and Mary Newell DePalma’s remarkable and empowering story about one girl’s journey from knitting a hat to making a difference.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Knit pink caps dot the pages of this picture book, which marks the fifth anniversary of the 2017 Women's March. A first-person narrative delivers the lead-up to the initial march through the eyes of Lina, who learns to knit as her grandmother works up protest hats for the whole family. Along the way, the light-skinned figures discuss the reasons for the march ("Sometimes the men in charge disrespect women and make us feel small. But we are not small," Zimmerman writes), while the appearance of a family cat hints at, but does not contextualize, the term flipped on its head by participants ("Pussycat! Pussyhat!"). A strand of pink yarn winds through DePalma's collages, which employ textiles, speech bubbles, and multidimensional vignettes with a handmade feel. Depictions of the variously inclusive crowd, protest signs, and a sea of pink hats combine with Lina's observations to re-create the event in this intergenerational story of female empowerment. Ages 4–8.
