Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
About
A spirited look at the Founding Mothers, by the critically acclaimed author Doreen Rappaport and illustrator Matt Faulkner.She couldnt go to college.She couldnt become a politician.She couldnt even vote.But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didnt let that stop her.She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to menand that included the right to vote. It took nearly seventy-five years and generations of women fighting for their rights through words, through action, and through pure determination...for things to slowly begin to change.With the help of these trailblazers own words, Doreen Rappaports engaging text, brought to life by Matt Faulkners vibrant illustrations, shows readers just how far this revolution has come and inspires them to keep it going!
Why it’s great
She could not vote, could not enter most colleges, and could not hold public office, but Elizabeth Cady Stanton would not stop. This spirited picture book chronicles the suffragist who sparked a movement and inspired generations of women to demand equal footing, including Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, who became the first American woman to earn a civil engineering degree just as that movement was impossible to ignore.
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