(Week 7, Children's Folktale) Folktales for Fearless Girls, by Myriam Sayalero

 

    This collection of folktales focuses on stories with an all female heroine cast. These folktale come from a wide variety of places and represents women from multiple cultures: China, Russia, Persia, India, Armenia, the UK, Spain, France, Southern Africa, Egypt, and Germany. 

 

These stories take young readers along a journey of female empowerment and turns the idea of a knight in shining armor on its head. 

Discussion and Classroom Application 

This is a fun read to use for a reader's theater activity. Discussions on the differences between how women are viewed in these mention countries when these stories were written versus how they are viewed now.