What a gift from Elizabeth MacLeod and Maïa Faddoul in the form of their beautiful new book Canadian Women Now + Then! Think Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls but featuring an all Canadian list of incredible women from diverse fields and backgrounds who have opened doors throughout history for women and girls today. With more than 100 features of amazing Canadian Women, Elizabeth MacLeod shares these stories in every field imaginable: actors and architects, mathematicians and musicians, poets and politicians.  We get to read the stories of those who helped shape our country and the stories of those who continue to lead in their fields. Author Elizabeth MacLeod provides an incredibly diverse list of women to inspire the next generation of trailblazers.  She shares with us the stories of Indigenous women, women who immigrated to Canada, and women who were born in Canada. She features straight women, lesbian women, women with a disability to give readers a broader understanding of the impact of all women and their ability to shape their fields and inspire young people. We love the design of featuring side by side women from the same field who are currently at the top of their field and the women who came before them.

This book has everything an aspiring historian could ask for; Brilliant biographies, a timeline of important dates and events in women’s history, resources for further learning and an index so you can continue to go back and forth searching for your favourite Canadian.

A fantastic choice to ask Maïa Faddoul to illustrate. She brings her signature colourful illustrative style to this book as she does for all of her work celebrating women and feminism. She creates a portrait of each of these women for visual reference, bringing them to life in the reader’s mind.