A picture book featuring thirteen American women in history that didn't let discouragement stop them from achieving their dreams, She Persisted highlights the stories of these individuals. Accompanied by the artwork of Alexandra Boiger, this book is a good introduction to history for young readers.

Chelsea Clinton's book offers two pages per person with a few sentences about their lives: where they came from and what they did that put their names in She Persisted. The book opens with children in a museum with portraits of these amazing women and ends with three standing beneath their favorites. Reading this together with a child may well inspire them to want to hear more about everyone from Harriet Tubman to Virginia Apgar to Oprah Winfrey.

I'm not sure about the cameo mentioned in the description, as the only woman not listed above was Virginia Apgar. Something else I thought might have been a good addition would've been time lines or a reference to the time period in which these women accomplished their discoveries, their appointments, etc. While these entries may well inspire further interest and research into the lives of these women, a rough idea would've felt better for the readers unfamiliar with the names Chelsea chose to include.

A great gift or even a simple bedtime story, She Persisted is a book about strength and pursuing your dreams despite the people that tell you otherwise.