Bad Girls

Bad Girls Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves & Other Female Villains By: Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple / Illustrated by: Rebecca Guay "When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better." —Mae West in I’m No Angel From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, "bad" women and girls have always been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. But what makes a woman "bad"? Are we idolizing the villain or rediscovering the underdog? In Bad Girls, readers meet twenty-six of history’s most notorious women, each with a rotten reputation. But authors Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple remind us that there are two sides to every story. Was Delilah a harlot or hero? Was Catherine the Great a great ruler, or just plain ruthless? At the end of each chapter, Yolen and Stemple appear as themselves in comic panels to debate each girl’s badness—Heidi as the prosecution, Jane for context. This unique and sassy examination of