A creative book, which folds fairy tales into a cookbook of kid-friendly recipes . . . Yolen retells them with her usual verve and ease . . . the resulting dishes as well as Beha's spare, whimsical spot illustrations, will capture children's fancy . . . a charming offering that the whole family will appreciate.--"Booklist."

From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. Strong females smack of the unfeminine. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Sometimes that is a just designation, but just as often it is not. "Well-behaved women seldom make history," is the frequently quoted statement by historian and feminist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. But what makes these misbehaving women "bad"? Are we idolizing the wicked or salvaging the strong?
In BAD GIRLS, readers meet twenty-six...