Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts

This book is beautifully written! As a scout leader, this book is a treasure. Anyone would find Juliette’s life inspiring as it’s told here.

If you are looking for a fascinating read about a brave, adventurous female role model, this book is it. After reading about the remarkable founder of the Girl Scouts, I wish that I could have met Juliette Gordon Low. This book will take you on a journey with this bold and brilliant woman who overcame deafness, a philandering husband and the stifling mores of her time. At age 51, an age when many women would have given in to a gloomy spinsterhood, she instead used her talents and her fortune to impact millions of girls around the world. Inspiring. A perfect book club selection.

I've been a Girl Scout for about 60 years and read everything I can get my hands on about Juliette Gordon Low. That said, I learned some things about her from this book that I've never seen or heard of before. The book is wonderful and is well worth reading. Our "Daisy" was a remarkable person who was ahead of her time in her lifetime, and would be ahead of her time even today.

I had heard an NPR interview with the author, and the book has not been a disappointment. It is detailed, and shows great empathy for this amazing woman of great moral strength. I had bought a copy for the elementary school where I teach, but may opt to donate it to the middle or high school students. In the 100th year of Girl Scouting in the U.S. and also the birthday of Title IX, women and girls (and men and boys) can thank Juliette Low for laying the groundwork for equal emphasis and opportunity. After that, we each have responsibility for what we do with what she gave us! Thank you, JGL.

Well written book, I followed Stacy's blog as she was writing the book so knew I had to buy it when it came out. May not appeal to people unless they are part of the GS movement, but a must read for anyone that loves the organization.