Stefani Nurding from the book Concrete Girls

Concrete Girls launches TODAY!

Stefani Nurding featured in the new book Concrete Girls

A couple pages from the new book Concrete Girls - featuring Lucy Adams

Helena Long & Lois Pendlebury from the new book Concrete Girls

Charlotte Thomas photographer and author of the book Concrete Girls

 All images above via Charlotte Thomas & the book,

Concrete Girls

We have always thought that there should be more books on women's skateboarding in the world, so when we started thinking about publishing our first book

It's Not About Pretty: A Book About Radical Skater Girls

we decided to form a small publishing company under our

Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word

brand, with the goal of publishing at least one book per year about women and girls skateboarding and possibly other sports featuring women that are not mainstream (yet).

We are proud to say that the new women's skate book

CONCRETE GIRLS

by Charlotte Thomas launches today and focuses on the female skateboarding scene in the UK. Charlotte has been documenting female skaters like Lucy Adams, Stefani Nurding, Rianne Evans and more for the past five years. The compilation of her work is shown in this beautiful 10x10 book that looks great on your coffee table or nightstand and provides major skate inspiration on every page.

You can order your copy of

Concrete Girls

HERE

Concrete Girls is published by Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word  @2018

The girls are ready to start signing books!

Heidi Lemmon getting books signed by Minna Stess, Stella Reynolds and Kala Fernandez

Legendary downhill ripper Amanda "Panda" Caloia

Minna Stess, Leah Ho and Stella Reynolds

Stella Reynolds, Quinne Daniels, Leah Ho & Minna Stess

Leah Ho and Minna Stess

Stella and Leah

Kimi and Cindy

Amanda, Briel, Stella, Leah, Quinne, and Minna

Briel, Stella, Leah, Quinne, Kala and Hannah

Minna adding the new It's Not About Pretty sticker to her board

Vianez and Amanda

Briel, Stella and Quinne - making art!

Yummy desserts by Flower Child for our launch party!

 Photos by Ian Logan

Saturday was the official book launch and party for the new

"It's Not About Pretty"

book hosted by our awesome partner

Flower Child Restaurant

in Santa Monica.  Skater girls turned up to celebrate and sign books for people, we had awesome desserts from Flower Child for our guests and it was a blast!

We'd like to thank everyone who came and purchased books, the skaters and their parents for bringing them, and of course

Flower Child

for hosting this awesome launch party!

Please check out

Flower Child's website

for the location near you  - their food is organic, yummy and they are huge supporters of girls skateboarding - pro skater Jordyn Barratt is their Del Mar store ambassador and Amanda Caloia is the Santa Monica store ambassador. We think that is pretty rad!

If you missed out on coming to the party, you can pick up a book via

Amazon.com