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BookDragon Series: Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames Tag

The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames | Njinga: “The Warrior Queen” by Janie Havemeyer, illustrated by Peter Malone

21 Oct, by SIBookDragon in African, Biography, Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Those Dastardly Dames are increasing their fold (yippeee!), this time to welcome a 16th-century West African queen named Njinga, meaning "twist," because she was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck! She certainly found her fighting spirit early on: as the eldest daughter...

The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Egyptian, European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Cleopatra: "Serpent of the Nile" by Mary Fisk Pack, illustrated by Peter Malone Agrippina: "Atrocious and Ferocious" by Shirin Yim Bridges, illustrated by Peter Malone Mary Tudor: "Bloody Mary" by Gretchen Maurer, illustrated by Peter Malone Catherine de' Medici: "The Black Queen" by Janie Havemeyer, illustrated by Peter Malone Marie...

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