Cover of Keep Climbing, Girls

Keep Climbing, Girls

The only way to make a bid

for a girl's equality is to climb right up to the

toppermost bough

of the very tallest tree.

The dynamic ode to girl power was written by noted Afro-American actor, poet, and playwright Beah E. Richards.First published in 1951, her poem is given new life in this edition that includes an introduction by LisaGay Hamiltonand stunning illustrations by R. Gregory Christie.With its inspirational messsage, this book will empower children with the realization that "the path of life goes up and up/not down!"

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Keep Climbing, Girls? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Keep Climbing, Girls. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. One Today Shares picture books, poetry, childrens
  2. How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways. Love Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Shares picture books, poetry, childrens
  3. Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem About China Shares picture books, poetry, childrens
  4. There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me Shares picture books, poetry, childrens

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. We Are Shining
  2. My America
  3. A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices
  4. Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems
  2. Oddhopper Opera: A Bug's Garden of Verses
  3. Should You Be a River: A Poem About Love
  4. This is a Poem that Heals Fish

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Hard Candy
  2. Good Books, Good Times!
  3. Complete Poems and Translations
  4. Langston Hughes