Connecticut author/illustrator Janice Hechter's new children's book published by Red Chair Press comes out on February 4, 2025.
The title is Where Are the Women?: The Girl Scouts' Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park.
It perfectly ties in to Women's
History Month.
When
a group of New York City Girl Scouts learn in 2016 that there
are no statues of women in Central Park, they organize and
combine forces in a quest to change that shocking fact.
Kirkus Reviews recommends the book, calling it "An inspiring
true story of female empowerment."
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/janice-hechter/where-are-the-women/
This book won a Mom’s Choice Gold Award, a Bronze Readers’
Choice Award, and a Royal Dragonfly Book Award for Children’s
Nonfiction.