You will have seen our Sampling, you have seen why it needed to be written. Now, here's the verdict on Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women. Is it everything it promises to be? Emily Writes is here to tell you what she and her children thought. After the phenomenal success of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls it seemed only a matter of time before we would have a New Zealand version of the book of heroes. In Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic New Zealand Women by Barbara Else we h

Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else is a collection of inspiring true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. There's Dame Whina Cooper, Janet Frame, Farah Palmer, Lucy Lawless, Kate Sheppard, Nancy Wake, Sophie Pascoe, Margaret Mahy, Lydia Ko, Merata Mita, Rita Angus, Te Puea Herangi — and many more. Their stories are accompanied by portraits by a selection of New Zealand's best-known illustrators: Ali Teo, Fifi Colston, Helen Ta