This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Vanina Starkoff This fascinating nonfiction picture book

This fascinating nonfiction picture book filled with stunning illustrations details the end of life for a whale

In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little

As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds

who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently

of understanding

This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Vanina Starkoff This fascinating nonfiction picture bookImagine trying to play tennis in a long dress, or swimming laps wearing heavy petticoats! That's how it used to be for girls and women in sports until a few found a better way! See how women like cyclist Kittie Knox, swimmer Annette Kellerman, and Albertine LePensee and her Canadian hockey teammates flouted convention and risked scandal to wear things they could move in. They sewed their own knickerbockers, donned sleek swimsuits, and shortened