Our Book of the Week this week is New Zealand's answer to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. GO GIRL: A STORYBOOK OF EPIC N.Z. WOMEN, written by Barbara Else and illustrated by Sarah Laing, Sarah Wilkins, Fifi Coulston, Ali Teo, Helen Taylor, Phoebe Morris, Sophie Watkins, Rebecca ter Borg and Vasanti Unka, is full of inspiring stories and wonderful illustrations. It includes Whina Cooper, Janet Frame, Beatrice Tinsley, Frances Hodgkins, Georgina Beyer, Huria Matenga, Jane Campion, Joan Wiffen, Karen Walker, Kate Edger, Katherine Mansfield, Mai Chen, Merata Mita, Mojo Mathers, Patricia Grace, Suzie Moncrieff, Farah Palmer, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Lucy Lawless, Kate Sheppard, Nancy Wake, Sophie Pascoe, Margaret Mahy, Lydia Ko, Merata Mita, Lorde, Rita Angus and Te Puea Herangi.

>> Barbara Else on why Go Girl needed to be written.

>> The problem with Hairy Maclary. 

>> We'll be posting a woman each day on our instagram page and on FaceBook. 

>> See also: 
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Literary Witches ; 

Brazen: Rebel ladies who rocked the world ; 
I Know a Woman: The inspiring connections between the women who have shaped our world ; 
Bygone Badass Broads ; 
The Periodic Table of Feminism ; 
Rad Women Worldwide ; 
I Am a Wonder Woman ; 
Three Cheers for Women! ;
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing stories of women in space ;
Power in Numbers: The rebel women of mathematics ; 
Women in Sports: 50 fearless athletes who played to win ;
Because I Was a Girl ; 
Herstory: 50 women and girls who shook the world ;
Visible: 60 women at 60 ;
200 Women
And, of course, Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different