Girls of the World

Linsey Davis is a New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist. She anchors World News Tonight on Sunday as well as ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live’s first-ever streaming evening newscast. She is a correspondent for World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline and is also the bestselling author of several children’s books including The Smallest Spot of a Dot, The World Is Awake, One Big Heart, Stay This Way Forever, and How High is Heaven. Linsey lives in New York with her husband and son, who is her biggest inspiration. You can follow her on Instagram @linseytdavis.Michael Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, writer and native Chicagoan whose other titles include The Skin You Live In and Mirror Face. He has partnered with Discovery Education on SEL and DEI curriculum for students globally, and has addressed forums for The King Center, Clinton Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Beyond Differences.  Lucy Fleming, a New York Times bestselling illustrator, has been an avid doodler and bookworm since childhood. She never quite grew out of having her head in the clouds, daydreaming. She specializes in children’s book illustration where her love for designing quirky characters meets her passion for storytelling. Lucy lives and works in a small town in England with a cup of ginger tea in hand and her cat close by.

Calling all girls: Stand up and be counted!Stepping up and speaking up, doing what needs to be done, expressing themselves, dreaming big dreams: This is what girls do and what they're capable of. Girls are out there and in the forefront of things, both individually and collectively. You'd better believe it's a 'great truth all people should know. / The girls of the world are ready to go!' This uplifting, empowering book, expressed in jaunty verse, depicts different girls who are diverse in skin color, hair color and style, race and ethnicity, religion, and physical ability (two use wheelchairs; one uses a prosthetic leg and crutches). These girls actively engage in a variety of activities: caring for and cleaning up the earth; imagining future professions, from mechanic to newscaster; painting; publicly voicing opinions and ideas; and, notably, uniting with other girls so as to affirm each other's strengths and bolster belief in themselves. Girls would seem to be the primary readership here, but young boys might well learn to better understand and respect a thing or two about their female siblings, relatives, classmates, and neighbors. The colorful illustrations, which portray wide-eyed, mostly smiling girls and young women on the path to success, are cheery and expressive.You go, girls--read, be you, stay excellent, and achieve!