February 18: Daring Book for Girls Debuts in London
Posted by Miriam…and in fact, in bookstores everywhere in the United Kingdom.
My copy of the British version arrived yesterday. I’m enjoying reading the new chapters, handily written by our British editor, Clare Hey. There are great new chapters on Women Who Changed the World (Indira Gandhi, Jane Goodall, Marie Stopes, the Suffrage Movement, Ann Frank and Mary Wollstonecraft). One chapter shows how to repair your bicycle tire if you’re out cycling and the tire blows–this is a good skill to have, certainly. I’m enjoying a chapter on small islands in and around the British Isle that daring girls might like to explore.
Instead of American sports like basketball and softball (yes, fellow Americans, these are American sports!), the British Daring Book for Girls explains the Rules of the Game for field hockey and for lacrosse, and for something called rounders, which I’m excited to learn about. Since netball was a surprise for me to learn about when we wrote the original Daring Book for Girls, it was neat to see it upfront in the British book, not tucked away behind basketball.
For some netball–in the United States, no less–take a look at these videos, one of the American Pacific Coast Netball League and also, by way of youtube magic, some British playing.
All in all, it’s great to see the Daring Girl credo spread to the United Kingdom:
Enjoy yourself.
Explore new things.
Lead an interesting life.