Book for a 4 yo which shows that girls are just as good as boys

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He keeps coming out with 'girls are weak' and "boys win more" and he's only four! God knows where he's getting it from. It certainly isn't home since I'm the one who gets on rooves to shingle them, saws the firewood and rides the motorbike.

Any recommendations for books for a 4 yo with great female models?

The Princess Knight

Little House in the Big Woods might be a good one in a couple of years. DS loves Mrs Pepperpot (although there's some dodgy statements about gender roles Mrs P herself is very rebellious).

Sophie and the Shadow Woods series, by Linda Chapman. Sophie has a brother who assumes that, because he is male, he will inherit his father's (?) super powers. He doesn't!

I'm always on the lookout for thrilling stories for my son in which the main protagonist just happens to be female, rather than it being 'a thing' that she is female. A good example that I read to him when he was 6 (I think) was 'Tilly and The Time Machine' by Ade Edmondson. A time-travelling adventure that he loved, in which the lead character just happened to be female. Will try to remember some others.

As for my daughter - she's only 3 but already showing signs of being a very girly girl who loves all things 'princess' (which in no way hinders her from kicking her brother's behind - lol).

I find that a lot of kids' books with a well-meaning feminist slant come with a mocking tone for girliness and often portray the heroine as being far too clever to bother with "silly dresses" etc. I can't see my daughter really going for that - her ideal heroine would be both girly and clever.

thanks for the suggestions, a couple are under the tree already

agreed with the slightly mocking tone in some books. Or ... well, I think the over-effort or axe-grinding comes over. I like the idea of the main protagonist just happening to be female. Hoping that Rosie Revere is like that!

When I was a young teen with a very Victorian father in a world where a woman couldn't sign for a mortgage on her own and my Mum had given up work when she got me, I had a book called "The Girl Book of Adventurers" - very patronizing title, but actually packed full of people like Gertrude Bell, Amelia Earheart, iirc even Artemisia of Caria and others. I loved reading about these strong, adventurous women and the can-do attitude. The world's hugely improved in terms of women's presence in all fields (except housework) but there are still much too strong subtler streams of putting women down. I hope these books will help establish an instinct that it's normal to have men and women doing the same jobs and doing the same exiting sports.

There’s a great website called A Mighty Girl, and it has terrific book lists chock full of independent, feisty girls.

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is going down a treat, at least with Mama, and he's not objecting to them so far.

The “Sophie” books by Dick King-Smith are short chapter books with a female lead, with twin older brothers a cracking great aunt and ambitions to be a farmer.

Have a look at amightygirl.com. It is a website with resources for girls about strong girls/women. I got lots of good recommendations from there.

www.amightygirl.com/books/mighty-girls-women/mighty-girls?age_range_filter=8

angryprincess recommended that too, ill take a look