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Instead of turning into a princess, when this little girl opens her dress up box she becomes a different woman from stories her mom tells her & pictures her mom shows her of real women who‘ve made a stamp on history. The way this is written invites you to play with it. For readers tell their own stories to listeners, to look up names they don‘t know together & find new ones, to dress up the paper dolls included at the end… #BBRCPictureBookLetterE

#Broadside designed by artist #ChandraOLeary and printed by #JessicaSpring for the 2008 election, featuring the words of activist #ElizabethCadyStanton

It‘s the first design in their #DeadFeminist series, which inspired this book.

“The day will come when this girl may vote!”

This story might be harder to keep young children‘s attention. I would use it in an older class setting.

This story helps depict women‘s rights in history and how they were treated compared to men in the account of a little girl and the obstacles she faced. It also uses historical language and phrases throughout to set the tone and time period for children.

“Seeing that she could not put her ballot in the box, Mrs. Stanton flung it at the hand covering the slot, saying, 'I have the same right to vote that any man here has.' “

I would use this book in my classroom because I feel like the women's suffrage movement is not discussed as much so it would shed light on the battle that women faced. It had a great symbol as well as far as the horse jumping the fence and at the end of the book the little girl was able to do it because she set her mind to it.