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scorpstar77's review against another edition
2.0
On the one hand, it's always interesting for kids to read about the childhood of famous figures in history, and the last chapter gives some details on why Clara Barton is famous. On the other hand, the book is not especially well-written and there's definitely some racist perspectives in the storytelling, including white colonizer perspective stories about the "Indian Wars" from Clara's father, the use of the words "Negro" and "slave", and a white savior perspective on how (essentially) good white people were the ones responsible for rescuing/helping poor runaway enslaved people. My kid and I had a lot of conversations about these problematic framings, which was educational in a different way, but honestly I feel like there have to be better, more modern biographies out there.
caleb_m's review against another edition
5.0
I liked it. She could read by the time she was 3. She did very good at grades because 3 of her siblings were teachers at home, but at school she was very shy and did bad, except for in writing.
lowkeybooks's review against another edition
3.0
These books were simple and educational for me as a child.
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