Elizabeth Started All the Trouble

by Doreen Rappaport, Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)

Overview

She couldn't go to college.

She couldn't become a politician.

She couldn't even vote.

But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her.

She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men-and 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 Rappaport's engaging text, brought to life by Matt Faulkner's vibrant illustrations, shows readers just how far this revolution has come, and inspires them to keep it going!

Select praise for Doreen Rappaport:

Martin's Big Words
* 2002 Caldecott Honor Book
* 2002 Coretta Scott King Honor Book
* Child Magazine Best Book of 2001
* New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2001

* "A stunning, reverent tribute."
-School Library Journal, starred review

Abe's Honest Words
* "Exceptional art, along with Rappaport's and Lincoln's words, makes this a fine celebration of a man who needs little introduction."
-Booklist, starred review

Eleanor, Quiet No More
* "Once again Rappaport celebrates a noble, heroic life in powerful, succinct prose, with prominent, well-chosen, and judiciously placed quotes that both instruct and inspire...Celebrate women in history and in politics with this picture-book life."
-School Library Journal, starred review


Helen's Big World
* "Stirring and awe-inspiring."
-The Horn Book, starred review

To Dare Mighty Things
* "[T]his lavish picture-book biography deftly captures the legendary man's bold, exuberant nature. . . . A truly inspiring tribute to a seemingly larger-than-life U.S. president."
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "Theodore Roosevelt's big ideas and big personality come together in this splendid picture-book biography."
-Booklist, starred review

* "Concisely written and yet poetic, this is a first purchase for every library."
-School Library Journal, starred review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786851423
Publisher:	Disney Press
Publication date:	02/23/2016
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	790L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Doreen Rappaport's nonfiction and historical fiction books have been acclaimed for their meticulous research and varied literary styles. Among her many award-winning biographies are Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, a Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner; Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, a CCBC Best Book of the Year, and an IRA Teacher's Choice; and Helen's Big World, illustrated by Matt Tavares, an ALA Notable Book, CCBC Best Book of the Year, and an Oppenheim SNAP (Special Needs Adaptable Products) Award winner. She lives and writes in upstate New York. Visit her at www.doreenrappaport.com.

Matt Faulkner, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, is an acclaimed illustrator who has written and illustrated a number of children's books, including Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, The Moon Clock, Black Belt, and A Taste of Colored Water. Matt lives with his wife, Kris Remenar, an author and children's librarian, and their children, in southeast Michigan. Visit him at www.mattfaulkner.com.

Editorial Reviews

This rousing account of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the suffrage movement…gives readers a whirlwind tour of the fight for the vote…Faulkner's caricature-style illustrations make his people seem to pop off the page in their righteousness, anger and determination…

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

PRAISE FOR HELEN'S BIG WORLD

"Helen Keller's transcendent leap across the barriers of her blindness and deafness continues to inspire."—Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS

* "U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt certainly dared mighty things, and this lavish picture-book biography deftly captures the legendary man's bold, exuberant nature. . . . A truly inspiring tribute to a seemingly larger-than-life U.S. president."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

PRAISE FOR HELEN'S BIG WORLD

* "Stirring and awe-inspiring."—The Horn Book, starred review

PRAISE FOR ELEANOR, QUIET NO MORE

* "Rappaport's spare text and Kelley's handsome paintings, evocative of WPA murals, reclaim the legendary first lady's story for the younger set, revealing the person behind the icon."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

PRAISE FOR TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS

* "Theodore Roosevelt's big ideas and big personality come together in this splendid picture-book biography."—Booklist, starred review

PRAISE FOR MARTIN'S BIG WORDS

* 2002 Caldecott Honor Book
* 2002 Coretta Scott King Honor Book
* Child Magazine Best Book of 2001
* New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2001

PRAISE FOR MARTIN'S BIG WORDS

"An ideal introduction to this leader and his works The portraits of King exude his spiritual strength and peaceful visage."—Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS

* "Concisely written and yet poetic, this is a first purchase for every library."—School Library Journal, starred review

From the Publisher

02/01/2016
Gr 1–4—This informational picture book offers up a brief account of how the women's suffrage movement in the United States began and developed momentum over the years. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was involved both in abolitionism and the women's rights movement, becoming an outspoken advocate in the two realms and leading the way for many other women to take up the banner of equality. Rappaport takes readers through the evolution of suffrage, from the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY, where Stanton shared the Declaration of Sentiments, to the many women who took a stand or dared to think outside the box. Organized chronologically, the book presents brief details about many of the events, protests, trials, and jail sentences, as well as how women eventually gained the right to vote, functioning almost as a time line. The accompanying artwork provides a look at individuals and adds context to the narrative. VERDICT A solid introduction to Stanton and the women's rights movement.—Jody Kopple, Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA

School Library Journal

2015-11-03
Rappaport examines the salient successes and raw setbacks along the 144-year-long road between the nation's birth and women's suffrage. This lively yet forthright narrative pivots on a reality that should startle modern kids: women's right to vote was only achieved in 1920, 72 years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Indeed, time's passage figures as a textual motif, connecting across decades such determined women as Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone. They spoke tirelessly, marched, organized, and got arrested. Rappaport includes events such as 1913's Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., but doesn't shy from divisive periods like the Civil War. Faulkner's meticulously researched gouache-and-ink illustrations often infuse scenes with humor by playing with size and perspective. As Stanton and Lucretia Mott sail into London in 1840 for the World Anti-Slavery Conference, Faulkner depicts the two women as giants on the ship's upper deck. On the opposite page, as they learn they'll be barred as delegates, they're painted in miniature, dwarfed yet unflappable beneath a gallery full of disapproving men. A final double-page spread mingles such modern stars as Shirley Chisholm and Sonia Sotomayor amid the historical leaders. Rappaport makes this long struggle palpable and relevant, while Faulkner adds a winning mix of gravitas and high spirits. (biographical thumbnails, chronology, sources, websites, further reading, author's note) (Picture book/biography. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews