Suffrage: Canadian women and the vote

by Susan Hughes, Meags Fitzgerald (Illustrator)

Read about the epic struggles, the years of hard work and perseverance and the prejudice women faced fighting for the most important, basic, democratic right--to vote.

Genres: Graphic Novels

52 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Susan Hughes is an award-winning writer of over 30 children's books. She is also a freelance editor and story coach. For more information about Susan's writing process and editing services, or to contact her, refer to her website, which is www.susanhughes.ca.

Reviews

[Glen Farrelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

An accessible and interesting account of the major points and people in Canada's suffrage movement. It's targeted to children from ages 10-14 (approx). It's quite short (43 pages of comics), easy to read, and doesn't get bogged down in extraneous facts - so it the type of book that won't push kids away from learning about a crucial part of our history.

As with all history graphic books, there is a lot of exposition and not much narrative to drive the story. But the author uses a contemporary, framing story to provide a means to bring together the various events and people (such as Emily Stowe and Nellie McClung) that span the entire country and a century.

I highly recommend this book for Canadian classrooms and libraries as a way to make history more accessible to children. The author also does a good job in tying the historic suffragette struggles to the importance for Canadian youth to vote nowadays.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Published in 2017 and still very white-washed. Mentions women of colour only in passing.