A beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship.
The book includes a blank spread at the end which readers can use to honor the Extraordinary Wing Woman in their own lives by writing or draWing their own tribute story..
Joy hopes to inspire and teach us that we, too, have our own wings and can soar higher than ever before with our Wing women beside us.
History and fiction have shown that we are stronger when we support one another.
Joy dedicates Extraordinary Wing Women to the generations of women who are dismantling the myth that we must compete with one another to pursue and achieve our dreams.
They are activists, artists, scientists, politicians, athletes, musicians, writers, and more--role models for every woman.
The women featured are from across the world and from diverse periods of history.
Others are less known though just as inspiring such as the friendship of Julia Child and her editor Avis DeVoto, Junko Tabei and her all-women mountaineering team, and the Mariposas --the Mirabel sisters who overthrew a dictator in the Dominican Republic.
Some will be familiar power duos--Oprah and Gayle, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Venus and Serena Williams.
This collection features 33 stories, each varying in length, accompanied by watercolor portraits, illustrations, and hand-lettered quotes.
Extraordinary Wing Women is Joy\'s tribute to the importance of female camaraderie.
The remarkable partnerships they shared were as multifaceted and complex as the individual women themselves.
Each of them were propelled forward by a supporter--a Wing woman--a sister, a mom, a best friend, a close confidant.
While researching her first book, That\'s What She Said , Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success.
Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.
A beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship
