Heather R. Davis

For girl-empowering costumes for Halloween -- including many based on Mighty Girl role models -- our 2021 Halloween Costume Guide features hundreds of costumes for all ages, infants through adults. Our costume guide is sortable by age and nine different themes, including historical, superheroes, animals, and more. Whether she wants to dress up as a favorite character from a book or film, a Greek goddess or a famous woman in history, a veterinarian or an astronaut, there are countless options for you and your Mighty Girl to explore together!

To start exploring our 2021 Halloween Costume Guide, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/halloween

Among the costumes featured are a Justice Child Costume for ages 4 to 14 (https://www.amightygirl.com/supreme-court-justice-robe) and a Justice Costume for teens and adults (https://www.amightygirl.com/judge-justice-adult-costume)

To introduce children to this trailblazing Supreme Court Justice, we recommend the picture book "I Am Sonia Sotomayor" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-am-sonia-sotomayor), the new chapter book "She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor" for ages 6 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-sonia-sotomayor), and the illustrated biography “Who is Sonia Sotomayor?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-sonia-sotomayor)

Sonia Sotomayor also recently told her life story in two books for children: "Turning Pages: My Life Story" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/turning-pages) and "The Beloved World of Sotomayor" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-beloved-world-of-sonia-sotomayor)

Thanks to Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos, the creators of Baldo, for this wonderful cartoon!

128 years ago today, New Zealand became the first country in modern times to recognize women's right to vote. New Zealand's Electoral Bill was passed in 1893 after nearly two decades of campaigning by women like Kate Sheppard, Amey Daldy, Ada Wells, Meri Te Tai Mangakahia, and Harriet Russell Morison, as well as the efforts of groups like the New Zealand division of the Women's Christian Temperance Union led by Anne Ward.

They countered their opponents' arguments that voting was outside a woman's "natural sphere" of the home by saying that allowing women to vote would encourage the passage of legislation that protected families. Suffrage bills were put forward beginning in 1887 and always defeated by a very close margin until a government strategy to foil the bill backfired, resulting in it passing in the Upper House by a vote of 20 to 18. As pictured here, the women who led the drive for women's suffrage are immortalized in the Tribute to the Suffragettes Memorial in Christchurch by artist Margriet Windhausen.

Congratulations to New Zealand for being trailblazers in the movement to grant women everywhere the right to vote!

Suffrage leader Kate Sheppard is one of 13 trailblazers featured in the inspiring picture book "She Persisted Around The World: 13 Women Who Changed History" for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-around-the-world

Kate Sheppard's story is also told in the picture book for ages 7 to 10 at https://www.amightygirl.com/kate-sheppard

You can also learn about the heroic women of the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement in our blog post "Books for Kids & Adults About the U.S. Suffrage Movement" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11827

To inspire children and teens with more true stories of women leaders who have changed the world, visit our “Role Models" biography section featuring hundreds of titles -- sortable by recommended reading age using our filter on the left menu -- at http://amgrl.co/2wRJudE