Lina notices her grandmother knitting with pink yarn and soon learns that she’s making special hats to wear at an important march to celebrate women and their rights. Even though she sometimes feels small, Lina learns how to knit her own pink hat, and her confidence begins to build. When Lina and her family join the Women’s March in Washington, DC, she is energized by the crowd and the sea of pink hats. It’s amazing to see so many people all knitted together! And as Lina marches, she feels much bigger than she ever has before.
Celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Women's March with this delightful multigenerational picture book about female empowerment. Virginia Zimmerman’s and Mary Newell DePalma’s remarkable and empowering story explores one girl’s journey from knitting a hat to making a difference — encouraging young readers to imagine themselves changing the world.
"Newell DePalma’s deft and creative mixed-media illustrations incorporate appliqués of real-life pussyhats that showcase meticulous stitchwork. A single pink piece of yarn weaves and winds between the feet of the characters, drawing them forward toward the march and beyond. Knitting metaphors are worked into the text, such as when Lina 'suggests that she and her grandmother loop elbows at the march, 'like we are knitting.” A closing author’s note gives background and context to the 2017 global demonstration.... A timely nod to female empowerment that knits together generations of girls and women and raises a hat to activists everywhere." — Kirkus Reviews
Recommended Age | 4 - 8 |
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Author | Virginia Zimmerman |
Illustrator | Mary Newell DePalma |
ISBN | 0762473894 |
Publication Date | Jan 4, 2022 |
Publisher | Running Press Kids |
Language | English |