Goosebottom Books LLC
Goosebottom Books is a small press founded by Shirin Yim Bridges, award-winning author of Ruby’s Wish and The Umbrella Queen. Dedicated to fun non-fiction and the concept of “stealth education,” Goosebottom Books launched its first series, The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses, in 2010. Since then, the press has won national and international awards and accolades for each subsequent series. The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames was named a Top 10 Nonfiction Series of 2012 by the ALA’s Booklist Magazine, and Call Me Ixchel, Mayan Goddess of the Moon, one of A Treasury of Glorious Goddesses, was named one of Foreword Reviews’ Top 10 Middle Grade Novels of 2013.
Goosebottom Books’ princesses, dames, and goddesses hail from around the globe and across different epochs of history. Many have made it onto the CBC’s Diversity Bookshelf, and several have been listed as Amelia Bloomer Project Recommended Feminist Books for Youth. Goosebottom uses their unique and wonderful books to practice what they call “Stealth Education.”
Their goal is to fascinate girls with intriguing true stories about real women, peppered with lots of interesting facts. To surreptitiously ignite a love for history and for reading. And, very importantly, to show girls that they can do it. Girls have been doing it throughout history.
Featured books for MCCBD 2016
THE THINKING GIRL’S TREASURY OF REAL PRINCESSES
Hatshepsut of Egypt by Shirin Yim Bridges
Artemisia of Caria by Shirin Yim Bridges
Sorghaghtani of Mongolia by Shirin Yim Bridges
Qutlugh Terkan Khatun of Kirman by Shirin Yim Bridges
Isabella of Castile by Shirin Yim Bridges
Nur Jahan of India by Shirin Yim Bridges
Sacajawea of the Shoshone by Natasha Yim
THE THINKING GIRL’S TREASURY OF DASTARDLY DAMES
Cleopatra “Serpent of the Nile” by Mary Fisk Pack
Agrippina “Atrocious and Ferocious” by Shirin Yim Bridges
Mary Tudor “Bloody Mary” by Gretchen Maurer
Catherine de’ Medici “The Black Queen” by Janie Havemeyer
Marie Antoinette “Madame Deficit” by Liz Hockinson
Cixi “The Dragon Empress” by Natasha Yim
Njinga “The Warrior Queen” by Janie Havemeyer
A TREASURY OF GLORIOUS GODDESSES
Call Me Isis by Gretchen Maurer
Call Me Athena by Shirin Yim Bridges
Call Me Ixchel by Janie Havemeyer
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