Thousands of years ago, in the world of the Ancient Greeks where women were expected to obey their husbands in all matters, to play no part in public life, and to stay inside the house, a princess grew up to be not only a sailor and a ship's captain, but a famous admiral. Her name was Artemisia, and among all the commanders fighting on the Persian side during the great Persian Wars, she alone dared to give Xerxes an honest opinion that could have saved his entire fleet. This is the story of a real and remarkable princess whose spirit prompted the Persian Great King, Xerxes, to declare, "My men have become women, and my women men!"
This is Book 1 in the The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses Series. See all The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses books here.
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Shirin Yim Bridges is the acclaimed author of several children's books as well as the publisher of Goosebottom Books. Sophie Blackall has illustrated twenty picture books as well as the bestselling Ivy + Bean series, and has written a few, too.
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