What better time to revisit this wonderful series from Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara that has brought history, biography & hope to a whole generation of kids, (almost) single handedly creating a new genre of children’s books and adding a new shelf to every bookstore! Beginning with 4 titles in 2016: Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou and Coco Chanel and now numbering over 100, you’ve most likely read one or the other or browsed them in your local bookstore or library.

But one (for me) glaring omission has always irked me: Where was Sally Ride? Now that ‘injustice’ has finally been corrected! Sally Ride was a talented tennis player in her youth, later a Stanford graduate with a doctorate in physics, joining NASA in 1978 and becoming in 1983 the first American woman in space. After leaving NASA in 1987, she took on various roles before founding, together with her partner, Sally Ride Science to bring the joy of science to children, especially girls. Ride was also the first openly LGBT astronaut.