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turrean's review
4.0
This was a very enjoyable, accurate, picture book account of the events surrounding Susan B. Anthony's act of civil disobedience: casting a vote. The illustrations are obviously based on contemporary photos and portraits. This would serve as a good introduction to Anthony's work.
The formatting for the digital version is awful. I wasn't allowed to view it in the Kindle Cloud Reader, so had to read it on my iPad. The magnifying tool doesn't work for this book. The text was so small, even when "tapped" that I had to practically put my nose on the book!
The formatting for the digital version is awful. I wasn't allowed to view it in the Kindle Cloud Reader, so had to read it on my iPad. The magnifying tool doesn't work for this book. The text was so small, even when "tapped" that I had to practically put my nose on the book!
nerfherder86's review
4.0
A fun picture book look at women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony--not a full biography, but just one incident, when in 1872 she registered to vote, citing the Fourteenth Amendment as making her as equal a citizen as freed black Americans, and therefore having the right to vote. She got fifteen other women to vote too, but then she was arrested for "not having the lawful right to vote" and put on trial. The short lyrical text has a good read-aloud refrain, "Outrageous. Unbelievable. True." Nice afterward and selected bibliography. Realistic airbrush paintings, with slightly enlarged heads on the people, kind of like caricature but not quite.
mmattmiller's review against another edition
2.0
I would love to share the story of Susan B. Anthony with students, as I feel not enough adults I know, know about her. I love non fiction picture books that read like a story that will hold students' attention. This one just feels so-so to me though. I think students will have more questions about why she had to pay money but didn't pay it, or how she had to go to jail but then didn't go to jail. I just think there are parts in here that would confuse my students, or just overall make them uninterested because they aren't following. (Granted, that can be a conversation starter- how someone let her register because he thought she was right in being allowed to, but then someone else said no she can't...) But I'm not sure all of my students would follow/care enough to try to really get it. I'm not sure what age would be right for this one. I really liked the illustrations though.
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