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Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's Rights
Unlike most girls of her time, Susan B. Anthony received an education. And besides reading and writing, her schooling taught her that women should have the same rights as men, above all the right to vote. So from the time she was a young woman until the day she died, Susan worked very hard to change America and make her dream reality.
32 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
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Deborah Hopkinson
97 books367 followersI write nonfiction and historical fiction, picture books, and Golden Books. I speak at school, libraries, and conferences. I also love to garden and offer manuscript critiques. (Deborahhopkinson@yahoo.com)
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August 2, 2017
This is a good introduction to the incredible life of Susan B. Anthony.
July 21, 2016
This is one of my favorite picture books about the amazing Susan B. Anthony. I especially appreciated the information about her right eye becoming crossed due to reading frequently in poor light. I am constantly reminding my own daughter not to do this, and I am fairly sure she thought I was lying when I told her doing so would permanently damage her eyes. Little bits of information about a person always adds to these non-fictional reads and humanizes them. Of course there was many other more important facts about Ms. Anthony and this is a great resource for any elementary age student when learning about the suffrage movement, abolition, equality, or just for an entertaining read. Loved it!
February 26, 2019
A decent beginner biography/introduction to Susan B. Anthony. She worked so hard for women's rights. I was sad to discover that women did not get the vote until 14 years after her death. It would have been wonderful if she could see how all of her work paid off.
May 8, 2018
The illustrations add a more human quality to the work she completed rather than other texts that have the traditional, yet stiff, photography of the time.
April 10, 2014
This is a short and informative biography about Susan B. Anthony. The narrative is written for beginning readers who are just starting to read chapter books.
It tells about the events in her life, the people who shaped and influenced her ideas and the efforts she made so that women could vote. Although she had a long life, it's disappointing to learn that she never lived to see the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment forty-two years after she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first introduced it.
I think it's an interesting read and helps to tell her story without being overwhelming with details. The book does not go into details about other pioneers in the suffragist movement, like Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, or even, Amelia “Mimi” Walker, women who carried the torch through to the finish. But it does show how passionately she strove for women's rights and we enjoyed reading this book together.
We recently attended a Women's History Month event at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia and listened to Lynne Garvey-Hodge portray Amelia “Mimi” Walker, telling about her life and her struggle to earn the right to vote as well as her experiences being imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse for for picketing in front of the White House. (We also learned a lot about these imprisonments by visiting the Workhouse Prison Museum, near our home in Lorton, VA.)
It was a fantastic performance, followed by a lovely english afternoon tea and a terrific discussion with other attendees. I really learned a lot about the Suffragist movement at this event and I hope our girls did, too.
By reading this story, I hope to make the struggle these women endured come alive for our girls, so they can understand just how long it took for women to be allowed to vote, and how long it's taken for us to truly stand shoulder to shoulder with men. Our girls have so many opportunities available to them and they are shocked to learn that these opportunities and rights were not available to women less than one hundred years ago. It's a lesson we should not soon forget.
It tells about the events in her life, the people who shaped and influenced her ideas and the efforts she made so that women could vote. Although she had a long life, it's disappointing to learn that she never lived to see the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment forty-two years after she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first introduced it.
I think it's an interesting read and helps to tell her story without being overwhelming with details. The book does not go into details about other pioneers in the suffragist movement, like Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, or even, Amelia “Mimi” Walker, women who carried the torch through to the finish. But it does show how passionately she strove for women's rights and we enjoyed reading this book together.
We recently attended a Women's History Month event at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia and listened to Lynne Garvey-Hodge portray Amelia “Mimi” Walker, telling about her life and her struggle to earn the right to vote as well as her experiences being imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse for for picketing in front of the White House. (We also learned a lot about these imprisonments by visiting the Workhouse Prison Museum, near our home in Lorton, VA.)
It was a fantastic performance, followed by a lovely english afternoon tea and a terrific discussion with other attendees. I really learned a lot about the Suffragist movement at this event and I hope our girls did, too.
By reading this story, I hope to make the struggle these women endured come alive for our girls, so they can understand just how long it took for women to be allowed to vote, and how long it's taken for us to truly stand shoulder to shoulder with men. Our girls have so many opportunities available to them and they are shocked to learn that these opportunities and rights were not available to women less than one hundred years ago. It's a lesson we should not soon forget.
November 7, 2014
A great book about Susan B. Anthony's life. Basically the same info as the other book we read, but had a little more info.
December 25, 2016
Eager to give this to my favorite six year old.
As we organize for 2017, it is wonderful to read short bios of strong women who have come before us.
As we organize for 2017, it is wonderful to read short bios of strong women who have come before us.
July 11, 2014
One of the better books we've read about her!
March 31, 2017
This book is a biography of Susan B. Anthony's life and how she became a fighter for women's rights. She along with her friend Elizabeth Stanton, fought to make women equal to men. This children's book goes through Susan B. Anthony's life and accomplishments.
Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's Righs, is a picture book biography created for kids. It is a fairly thin book but there is a decent sized paragraph on each page. This book is also a chapter book, each chapter marking a different part of Susan's life. What makes this book a picture book biography is the amount of images used in as the book goes into chronological detail of Susan B. Anthony's life.
Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women's Righs, is a picture book biography created for kids. It is a fairly thin book but there is a decent sized paragraph on each page. This book is also a chapter book, each chapter marking a different part of Susan's life. What makes this book a picture book biography is the amount of images used in as the book goes into chronological detail of Susan B. Anthony's life.
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