"Fantastically Great Women Who Changed History" by Kate Pankhurst (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

The hotly anticipated follow-up to Kate Pankhurst's "Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World" is here - and this time they're making history...
Who are? Women are of course in "Fantastically Great Women Who Made History".

Kate's original book came out at a time when there weren't nearly enough of these types of book around, celebrating the amazing achievements of inspirational women throughout history and the world.

But now there's a veritable flood on the way - in this year celebrating the centenary of the women's vote, and the International Year of Women meaning that there's never been a better time to once again revisit women's history in a fun, well researched and thoroughly brilliant way.

This time Kate digs into history a lot deeper than before, stretching way back to the amazing Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni Tribe who was a fearsome warrior queen who fought the well organised and better resourced Roman army, fighting off the invaders and definitely winning our admiration and respect.

Moving forward, we learn about Harriet Tubman and her efforts to free slaves in America with her 'underground railroad' - Saving thousands from lives of misery and servitude.

We learn all about Mary Shelley, without whom modern fantasy and science fiction arguably wouldn't even exist as a hugely successful literary genre.

We learn about Valentina Tereshkova, amazing Russian Cosmonaut and the first woman into space. In fact Kate manages to produce a really wonderful summary of some of the more obscure and yet pivotal and important female figures in history rather than falling into the trap of just listing off the same names and faces we've seen so many times before.

That's really just a tiny teaser of the amazing stories you'll find inside this hugely satisfying and superb book, once again awesomely illustrated and once again so good for such a wide range of ages from tinies to teens, boys or girls. Sheer brilliance in book form.

"Fantastically Great Women Who Made History" by Kate Pankhurst is out now, published by Bloomsbury (kindly supplied for review).