Here's an excellent picture book about a young girl who proves to her skeptical father that she has the ability to manage the family farm after he passes away.

Mary's father can't decide which of his two sons should inherit the family farm, so he devises a competition to see which boy will get the nod. When both her brothers fail at the task her father sets for the boys, Mary asks her father if she can try.

Although he is very reluctant to even let his daughter attempt the task (you'll have to read the book to see what it is!), the farmer agrees after Mary tells him it takes brains, not just brawn, to operate a farm.  Using her sharp intellect, the clever young girl easily fulfills the task and one day does, in fact, inherit the farm.

Tanya Landman's retelling of this feminist tale will strike a positive chord with women and they'll want to share this book with their young daughters.

When told (usually by a male) that they can't do something because of their sex, most young women today hunker down and prove the naysayer wrong.

This evocative story reinforces the idea that women, no matter their age, should not accept the judgment that they can't do something because it is too hard, too complicated or takes abilities they do not possess. As the young girl in this story would say, "Hogwash!"