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Emily Arnold McCully\u2019s picture book The Ballot Box<\/em> Battle <\/em>(Dragonfly Books, 1998), set in 1880, centers around a determined little girl named Cordelia, her down-putting brother (\u201cNo votes for pea-brained females!\u201d), and their indomitable next-door neighbor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who continues to try to cast her vote every year, despite the taunts of the local men. Appendices provide information about Stanton\u2019s life, and instructions for making a ballot box and writing a \u201cKids\u2019 Declaration of Rights.\u201d For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/elizabeth-leads-way-221x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Tanya Lee Stone\u2019s Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote<\/em> (Henry Holt and Company, 2008) is a picture-book biography with a brief catchy text. \u201cWhat would you do if someone told you that you can\u2019t be what you want to be because you\u2019re a girl?\u201d the book begins. \u201cWould you talk back? Would you fight for your rights? Elizabeth did<\/em>.\u201d For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/around-america-to-win-vote-258x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\nMara Rockliff\u2019s Around America to Win the Vote<\/em> (Candlewick, 2016) is the story of Nell Richardson and Alice Burke who set off in 1916 to cross the country is a little yellow car promoting votes for women. (They took with them a sewing machine, a typewriter, and a kitten.) For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/miss-paul-for-president-233x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\nBy Dean Robbins, Miss Paul and the President<\/em> (Knopf, 2016) is the picture-book biography of activist Alice Paul, who confronted President Woodrow Wilson over the issue of women\u2019s suffrage. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lillians-right-to-vote-1-232x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\nIn Jonah Winter\u2019s Lillian\u2019s Right to Vote<\/em> (Schwartz and Wade, 2015), a 100-year-old African-American woman, climbing the hill to the polling place, recalls her family\u2019s history and the long struggle for voting rights in America. A brave and poignant story for ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/I-could-do-that--225x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n In Linda Arms White\u2019s picture-book biography I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote<\/em> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), feisty Esther\u2019s can-do philosophy \u2013 which starts at the age of six when she convinces her mother that yes, she can so make tea \u2013 eventually propels her to start her own business, help get women the vote in the Wyoming Territory, and become the first woman in the country elected to political office. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-forgot-your-skirt-300x293.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Shana Corey\u2019s flamboyantly illustrated You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!<\/em> (Scholastic, 2000) is the story of Amelia Bloomer \u2013 \u201cNOT a proper lady\u201d \u2013 who revolutionized women\u2019s restrictive 19th<\/sup>-century clothes by introducing the puffy pants that bear her name. (She also started her own newspaper and worked to get women the vote.) For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/heart-on-fire-300x238.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Ann Malaspina\u2019s Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President<\/em> (Albert Whitman and Company, 2012) is a picture-book account of a landmark episode in Anthony\u2019s life: the day in 1872 when she cast a ballot in a presidential election, was arrested, and \u2013 in spite of a convincing defense by Anthony \u2013 was convicted and fined. (She never paid.) The case effectively raised public awareness of the women\u2019s suffrage movement. The book is written in free verse, with a compelling refrain of \u201cOutrageous.\/Unbelievable.\/True.\u201d For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/susan-b-anthony-Hopkinson-200x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Deborah Hopkinson\u2019s Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women\u2019s Rights<\/em> (Simon Spotlight, 2005) is a short chapter biography in the Ready-to-Read series. When Susan was born in 1820, Hopkinson begins \u201cMarried women couldn\u2019t own land. Girls couldn\u2019t go to college. No woman was allowed to vote.\u201d Included is a timeline of Anthony\u2019s life. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/marching-with-aunt-susan-258x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n In Claire Rudolf Murphy\u2019s Marching With Aunt Susan<\/em> (Peachtree Publishers, 2011), ten-year-old Bessie, growing up in Berkeley, California, in 1896 \u2013 is beginning to discover that there are too many things girls aren\u2019t allowed to do. Left behind when her father and brothers leave on a hiking expedition, Bessie meets Susan B. Anthony \u2013 called by all \u201cAunt Susan\u201d \u2013 at a tea, and soon, along with her friend Rita, becomes a volunteer at the suffragists\u2019 headquarters. Despite their efforts, California fails to give women the right to vote, but there\u2019s hope for the future: at the end, Bessie is teaching her mother to ride a (liberating) bicycle and her father has agreed to take her hiking. Included is a supplementary resource list. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/susan-b-anthony-Wallner-300x272.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Alexandra Wallner\u2019s Susan B. Anthony<\/em> (Holiday House, 2012) is an attractive picture-book biography covering Anthony\u2019s childhood and education, her passionate involvement in the women\u2019s suffrage movement, and her friendship with fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/road-to-seneca-falls-207x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\nGwyneth Swain\u2019s The Road to Seneca Falls<\/em> (First Avenue Editions, 1996) is a short chapter biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her role in the first women\u2019s rights convention, told in story form and illustrated with pencil drawings. For ages 7-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/If-You-when-women-won-rights-300x251.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Anne Kamma\u2019s If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights<\/em> (Scholastic, 2006) is an overview of the women\u2019s rights movement in America from the time of the first European settlers on. The book is written in a conversational question-and-answer format: \u201cWhich laws upset women most?\u201d \u201cWhat did women wear?\u201d \u201cWhy weren\u2019t women allowed to go to college?\u201d \u201cHow did women earn money?\u201d \u201cWhat happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?\u201d For ages 7-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-want-women-to-vote-lizzie-stanton-194x300.jpg\") \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\nJean Fritz\u2019s You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? <\/em>(Putnam Juvenile Books, 1999) is a marvelous 96-page chapter biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, crammed with human interest, engaging details, and superbly presented history. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rightfully-ours-300x231.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n By Kerrie Logan Hollihan, Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote<\/em> (Chicago Review Press, 2012) is a terrific overview of the women\u2019s suffrage movement, packed with wonderful period prints, cartoons, and photos, a timeline, a resource list, and 21 hands-on activities. These include making a coat-hanger banner and designing a pro-suffrage postcard, singing suffragist songs, experimenting with a \u201ccorset,\u201d and trying some recipes from the Woman Suffrage Cook Book<\/em>, written in 1886 to raise money for the cause. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| <\/td>\n | One of the projects in Rightfully Ours<\/em> \u2013 \u201cMake a Memory\u201d \u2013 involves making a scrapbook, of the sort kept by Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2019s cousins, Elizabeth and Anne Miller, filled with mementos of the suffrage movement. For a webcast on the scrapbooks, digital images, and a wealth of information about women\u2019s history, see Catch the Suffragists\u2019 Spirit: The Millers\u2019 Suffrage Scrapbooks<\/a> from the Library of Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| <\/td>\n | From ReadWriteThink, March is National Women\u2019s History Month<\/a> has a project for making a scrapbook of U.S. women\u2019s history, with suggestions and recommended resources.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wheels-of-change-234x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Sue Macy\u2019s Wheels of Change<\/em> (National Geographic Children\u2019s Books, 2011), subtitled \u201cHow Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way),\u201d is a compelling account of how the bicycle contributed to women\u2019s liberation, illustrated with terrific period photographs. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/friendship-that-changed-world-Coleman-200x300.jpg\") <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n Penny Colman\u2019s | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |