Ironically, I'm reading a cute little book about a strong women around International Women's Day! Not on purpose, but still totally amusing.

Billie Jean King by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara is a lovely little tale about the amazing tennis player Billie Jean King. We get to see her amazing story of working hard to achieve her goals to be the best tennis player she could be! She wore shorts instead of skirts, saved up her own money to buy her own supplies and worked her butt off! She won awards for her hard work, started community organizations and was just all around awesome!

My pros:
1. The pictures are soft, full of colour and memorable. I really liked how they stood out and complimented the story.

2. This book was easy to read but had strong enough language that a few age groups could easily find this book enjoyable. On top of that, I'm sure many adults can be sent into flashbacks about The Battle of the Sexes tournament that happened in the Tennis World!

3. We get to see a little girl who worked hard (gardened and did housework) to save up her money to get her first tennis racquet! Isn't it great we get to share with the kids some hard working kids books?!

4. The tennis outfits are rocking!

My cons:
1. Sometimes the soft lines of the illustrations felt like they blurred a bit, but that could be because I was on an e-reader.

Overall, this book is an absolute delight and I'd highly recommend it! Who doesn't want to watch an awesome woman do awesome things? Let's show our kids hard work pays off! Also, I would love to read the many other parts of this collection about all of the other cool people (women and men alike) who are apart of this series!

Five out of five stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this amazing opportunity to pick up this lovely book! ( )

This is one of many books in the "Little People, Big Dreams" series. The author was born in Spain and her goal is to creatively establish a new relationship between kids and pop culture. This biography series does just that by using approachable text to share information on people kids are familiar with or will be able to relate to. In this book, we learn about how Billie Jean King rose to fame as a tennis star and then faced frustration upon learning that women are awarded and paid much less money than men as sports stars. King became an advocate for gender equality in sports and has been influential in establishing groups to advocate for women's rights in sports as well. With captivating illustrations and a fast-paced, easy to understand text, this biography series is a great way for students to learn about relatable people in pop culture or from history.

Billie Jean King is a picture book biography, which takes the reader into her childhood love of baseball and realization that as a girl she could not play past childhood. She loved to run and hit, so she explored different sports and found tennis. She knew she could play with boys and girls and upon meeting her future coach at a free lesson, she changed the world of sports for women, as she excelled in the sport of tennis. Her determination opened opportunities for scholarships to colleges for young women. At the end of the illustrations, we meet the real Billie Jean King through photographs and informational text. I love biographies written for kids. Highly recommend not only this book, but the others in the series! #NetGalley #Billiejeanking #Hottingerhighlights #nonfictionpicturebook #picturebookbiography #womensequality #womeninsports ( )

Billie Jean King by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara explores the life of an extraordinary tennis prodigy who broke limit after limit against women in sports. As a child, King displayed great hand-eye coordination, and excelled at just about any sport. At age 11, she was introduced to tennis and fell in love with it. The end of the book contains a more detailed look at King's life, using language suited for much older readers. Inspirational and educational both, this entire series is great! I read this with my cubs. We love this series! Highly recommended!

***Many thanks to the Netgalley & Quarto Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. ( )