For a few years, numerous publishers have joined the fever of rescuing the figures and names of women who are or were referents from the bottom of the closet.

For a few years now, in the heat of collections such as Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Destiny) or Small & Large (Alba), numerous publishers have joined the fever of rescuing, from the bottom of the closet, the figures and names of women who are or were referents and that, in the best of cases, are or were relegated to the background in History, when not unfairly forgotten by that same History, generally written by men for men.

With the laudable idea of ??recovering the life stories and achievements of these women so that girls (and boys) find in them feminine references that inspire and motivate them, in recent years we have witnessed a real boom in illustrated albums which, with more or less success -as happens with everything that is a trend-, have brought the first readers closer to figures such as Frida Kalo, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie or Clara Campoamor, among many others.

Continue reading here: El País