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A picture book biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This is mostly a straight up biography. It simply gives facts about Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life in an easy to understand manner. I especially liked when she met her husband and he didn't laugh at her crazy ideas. I also liked how her father wasn't a villain, he just knew that her life would be easier if she had been born a boy. What I didn't like was the lack of a lot of dialogue. There's a little bit of dialogue taken from ECS's writing but not a whole lot, even when her friends find her idea of woman suffrage preposterous! I was also not excited by the folk art style illustrations. Elizabeth should have been shown in her signature bloomer costume she adopted after discovering how difficult it was to carry a baby downstairs in hoop skirts. The book includes an author's note and sources.

This is a good, quick, simple biography to introduce children to one of my personal heroes.