“It’s important that we start now, and we can start with whatever is most important to us.”Ĭlinton has also written a book for teens, It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! (Puffin Books, April 2017), as well as two New York Times bestselling picture books: She Persisted and She Persisted Around the World.Ĭhelsea Clinton, who is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is the author of several books for children. “I really do believe in the title of my book,” Clinton told me in a recent phone interview. It’s geared for kids between the ages of 7 and 10.
“When talking to kids, I’m continually struck by how aware they are of what’s happening in the world, how curious they are, and how engaged they are,” says children’s book author and former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton.Įarlier this month, Clinton launched her latest book, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference (Philomel Books, October 2, 2018).
She would say she had finished something and she then would pictures of it on her phone," explained Chelsea.Maxwell with Chelsea Clinton in 2017 in Madison, Connecticut "So I knew that my mom still wrote longhand, but I didn't realize what that would mean to collaborate. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book."īoth Hillary and Chelsea are publishing veterans at this point with a shelf of titles between them, but the collaborative process wasn't always easy. "While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. "Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century," reads a description of the project.
Women featured in the book include LGBTQ activist Edie Windsor, historian Mary Beard, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai among many, many others.
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