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Children’s Book Reviews
By Selene Vasquez
A tribute to remarkable lives for Women’s History Month:

BIOGRAPHY: Ages 7-10
Prudence Crandall: Teacher For Equal Rights by Ellen Lucas. Illustrated by Kimanne Smith (Carolhoda, 48 pp, $21.27) Despite fierce opposition in 1832, a Quaker teacher battles courageously to preserve the first school in the United States for African American girls. Easy-to-read text rendered with realistic full page paintings that enhance the essential drama of this struggle for equal rights.

Jane Goodall: the Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours by Jane Goodall (Scholastic, 32 pp, $17.95). With keen scientific reporting and deep affection, Goodall offers her unique style of research into the heart of the animal world. Excellent photos from 40 years of research at Gombe National Park highlight observations that are absorbing in their message of compassion for all living things. This book is an inspiration for all girls interested in the sciences.

FOLK TALES: Ages 7-10
Maiden of the Mist: A Legend of Niagara Falls by Veronika Charles (Stoddart, 32 pp. $13.95). No longer the submissive girl of European renditions, Lelawola of the Seneca Tribe is a courageous and outgoing heroine eager to save her ill stricken people from the mysterious and threatening horned god snake poisoning the Niagara River.

Steamboat Annie and The Thousand-Pound Catfish by Catherine Wright. Illustrated by Howard Fine (Phiomel, 32 pp, $15.99). A tall-tale heroine of gigantic proportions baits and tackles a hot-tempered heavyweight of a whiskered catfish. A stomping success of a story with exaggerated villainous plotting gone awry. #

Selene S. Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, Florida. She is formerly a children’s librarian for the New York Public Library.

 

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