Great Books For Girls : More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women

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Summary: Buy Updated 2002 version of this book
Review: There is a updated version of this book that was published in May 2002. It has more than 200 new titles, and eliminates the out-of-print books. For some inexplicable reason, Amazon makes it hard to fine. If you search for "Odean Girls," then select "More" where it says "Editions," you will get to the new one. It's the same handy guide, but with more recent books.

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Summary: A fabulous resource!
Review: This book is a great investment! My daughter is a voracious reader, and this book has helped me find lots of great books for her. We have read a good number of the selections and they have turned out to be great stories. I've found that the annotations in other parent book guides are too short to differentiate the books, and the selections tend to be no more satisfying than books I can find myself. Great Books for Girls continues to surprise and delight me

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Summary: Very Very Great
Review: This is a very great book I think every girl that likes to read should take a look at this book! Please read this. I went out and bought one of these books and I read it at least 3 times!

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Summary: very good but missing non-fiction
Review: This is an excellent book as a reference for fiction books for girls. In that respect I would rate it with 10. It is missing descriptions of non-fiction books, however, whereas the boys' version of this book ("600 Great Books for Boys") has substantial non-fiction sections. I think this is a serious flaw, perhaps even sexist. Hopefully this will be rectified in the next edition.

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Summary: I Guess It Depends on How You Define "Great"
Review: To the extent that you are conservative and strongly favor traditional family values, you may not find much use for this book, which I see as liberal, "politically correct," and guilty of "reverse sexism." I think I could have better spent the cost of the book on something else.

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Summary: Love it! Great resource for parents of girls *and* boys!
Review: We bought this book when our daughter was under two and have found it a charming and invaluable resource. Whenever her skills and interests change, it leads us to many wonderful books. We have yet to find a book listed that is not both beautiful and interesting. I only have two quibbles. First, it should be called "Great Books About Girls for Girls and Boys", since boys could use some positive female role models too. Second, I desperately wish it contained similar listings for movies and videos!!!

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Summary: Parents of girls: take this book with you to the library!
Review: We take this book with us every library visit. It's full of wonderful books that we would never have found. Strongly recommended!

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Summary: Parents of girls: take this book with you to the library!
Review: We take this book with us every library visit. It's full of wonderful books that we would never have found.Strongly recommended!