In the meantime, the following is a master list to help you kill it at book fairs. If someone could please write and share the master list for life, you’d have a lot of thankful friends, with me in the front row. There were so many things I could have shared with you today, but the one thing I came back to, which I always seem to come back to, was a master list of some sort. Happy Valentine’s Day to those who celebrate and those who don’t! Master Checklist for a Powerful Presence at Book Fairs Reviewed by some of the world’s leading pirate experts and historians, Pirate Queens showcases six gutsy women who dared to rule the high seas. Illustrations by Sara Gómez Wooley.įrom Ching Shih, a Chinese pirate who presided over a fleet comprised of some 80,000 men (Blackbeard had 400!), to Anne Bonny who famously ran away from an arranged marriage to don trousers and brandish a pistol in the Bahamas, to Sayyida al Hurra, an Islamic queen who ruled the Western Mediterranean, this edgy illustrated book proves that since ancient times women have made their mark in all aspects of history-even pirate lore. Publication is set for January 2022 Elizabeth Harding at Curtis Brown Ltd. Ariane Szu-Tu at National Geographic Kids has bought Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas by Leigh Lewis, a middle grade nonfiction title that combines verse poetry, illustrations, and nonfiction to explore important and often unheralded women throughout history who were powerful pirates in their own right.

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