NEW YORK – Chelsea Clinton is extending her celebration of women to chapter books and the world of sports. Clinton's “She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changes the Game” will be published Sept.
22, the children's imprint Philomel Books announced Monday. The latest of Clinton's best-selling “She Persisted" picture books will include sections on such prominent athletes as Wilma Rudolph, Mia Hamm, and Venus and Serena Williams.
Also Monday, Philomel announced that a new series of chapter books will feature 80-page stories on women that Clinton and “She Persisted” illustrator Alexandra Boiger previously honored.