Girls Rule with Danielle Brown
Thursday 6th March 2025
Overview: An online story-telling session and live Q&A with Paralympic two-time gold medallist and author Danielle Brown.
Where: Online
When: Thursday 6th March, 10:00 – 11:00
Aimed at: 7-12 year-olds
About the book…
From fierce pirate leaders, warrior queens and spies to pioneering mountaineers, conservationists and scientists, Girls Rule explores 50 phenomenal females whose accomplishments have left a lasting impression and legacy.
Discover these fantastic women, some of whom are well-known and others not so much, but they all have something in common — they are female figures that have achieved great things! From talents in science, politics, architecture, activism, the arts, palaeontology and more, all readers will feel inspired and in complete awe.
Figures include:
- Rosa Parks
- Mary Anning
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- George Eliot
- Zaha Hadid
About the Author
Danielle’s story is all about breaking barriers.
After becoming disabled as a teenager with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, she realised that when life gets tough we have a choice. Choose to let the things outside our control defeat you, or choose to control your response to it.
This mindset got her to try archery on her 15th birthday. Three years later Danielle was on the Great Britain team, jumping in as World Number 1 and hanging onto this position for her entire career. She is a 5-time World Champion and double Paralympic gold medallist,
winning gold in Beijing 2008 and retaining her title on home soil in London 2012. She also became the first disabled person to represent England as an able-bodied competitor at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won Gold.
Now, when she’s not busy writing non-fiction children’s books, she inspires young people to pursue big goals, work hard and keep going especially when it gets tough. Her story –and her ability to tell it – encourages children to develop a growth mindset and learn how
to believe in their abilities when it really matters.
Her most recent children’s book, Girls Rule, focuses on fearless role models through history and how they have used their voice to drive change. Inspired by the lack of role models in her sporting career, she also wrote Run Like A Girl which features stories of 50 female athletes from around the world and won the Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year 2022.
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This is just one of a series of online storytelling sessions we are hosting for children featuring themes about disability, to help promote inclusivity, boost self-confidence and inspire young readers and hopeful authors or illustrators to be! To view our other upcoming events, click here.
If you have any questions about the event please contact lexi@childrentoday.org.uk.
