Courageous Queens

Overview

A story collection about women with power and how they used it.

These queen stories are not fairytales for small children. They are true tales of real women that every young person should know. The clever and brave women in this collection had power and used it to achieve their goals. They would prove themselves pioneers, problem solvers and inventors and, often, incredible leaders.

These fast paced, action packed tales are stories that have been lost, stories that have remained untold. The stories come from around the world and across history, but the single thing they share is that each is, in their own way, about a truly courageous queen.



 

Author Biography

Angela Buckingham is a writer and documentary filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. Angela established her own film company in Melbourne - Iliad Studio - producing television documentaries and wrote and directed many films. Angela’s literary work focuses on historical narratives, but also on fact-based dramatic texts that demand intensive research work. Social justice is the core theme of her professional career.

Debora Islas is a Brazilian artist with a pure talent for drawing. Highly skilled with pencils, crayons, watercolors, gouache and digital techniques, Debora constantly experiments, bringing various media together to push the boundaries in her work to create truly spectacular, special pieces. Debora’s high-profile collaborations include some of the world’s most popular pencil and art product brands, Faber- Castell and Staedtler.