NOT ONE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: HEROIC GIRLS FROM WORLD FOLKLORE 
by Jane Yolen.  Illus. by Susan Guevara.  New York:  Houghton 
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2018. 134p. ISBN 978-1328900203 
hc. $15.99   K-3    JNF   398.2208   

Readers will be hooked from the opening letter. "I never had this 
book when I was growing up [...] I was always King Arthur or 
Merlin or sometimes Lancelot because I'd never heard of Bradamante, 
and Guinevere was no fun at all-just kissing and sneaking around."  
Full of fantastic, and better yet, female, heroes, this book 
collects a wide variety of stories about women in folklore and 
mythology. Not that readers should butt men out of the picture 
entirely, because well-balanced stories are just that - well
balanced - but every once in awhile, girls need a good hero story 
where they do their own saving. 
Abbey, Children's Librarian, Spies Public Library, Menominee, MI