{"id":18801,"date":"2012-10-21T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=18801"},"modified":"2014-05-11T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T02:07:45","slug":"the-thinking-girls-treasury-of-dastardly-dames-njinga-the-warrior-queen-by-janie-havemeyer-illustrated-by-peter-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-thinking-girls-treasury-of-dastardly-dames-njinga-the-warrior-queen-by-janie-havemeyer-illustrated-by-peter-malone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking Girl\u2019s Treasury of Dastardly Dames | Njinga: “The Warrior Queen” by Janie Havemeyer, illustrated by Peter Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dastardly<\/a>Those Dastardly Dames<\/a><\/em> 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 of a king and a slave woman, Njinga was trained by her father “to think like a ruler and fight like a warrior” even though she couldn’t inherit the throne merely because of her gender.<\/p>\n

Traditions aside, when her incompetent half-brother loses their kingdom to the Portuguese who are thriving on an ever-growing, gruesome slave trade, Njinga quickly\u00a0\u00a0realizes “her kingdom needed her” and proves to be a skillful negotiator \u2013 with and without weapons. Little impedes her progress toward reclaiming and establishing her kingdom: murder, intrigue, slavery, human sacrifices, even conversion to Catholicism (!) become\u00a0de rigueur<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0establishing\u00a0her power. If you wanted to survive, you did as you were told!<\/p>\n

Inspiringly girl-powered\u00a0Goosebottom Books<\/a>\u00a0once again introduces readers to another fascinating, frightening historical figure. As\u00a0in each installment of\u00a0The\u00a0Thinking Girl\u2019s Treasuries of\u00a0Dastardly Dames<\/a><\/em>, the implicit question looms, ‘what price power?’ ‘Twisted’ Njinga surely had her share of challenging options and seems to have made some of the more grislier choices.<\/p>\n

What, indeed, might each of us have done …? Here’s one thing for sure: Goosebottom’s gooses surely\u00a0are channeling\u00a01991 Pulitzer Prize winner<\/a>, Harvard history professor (and Mormon!)\u00a0Laurel Thatcher Ulrich<\/a>‘s\u00a0oft-quoted book title,\u00a0“Well-behaved women seldom make history.<\/i>” Amen to that!<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Children, Middle Grade<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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