Jasmine A. Stirling, author of A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen
Discovered Her Voice, delivers a powerful, poetic picture book
biography about suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, perfect for fans of I
Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark and the Rebel Girls
series.
As a child, Carrie Chapman Catt asked a lot of questions: How many
stars are in the sky? Do germs have personalities? And why can't Mama
vote? Catt's curiosity led her to college, to a career in journalism,
and finally to becoming the president of The National American Woman
Suffrage Association. Catt knew the movement needed a change--and she
set to work mobilizing women (and men) across the nation to dare to
question a woman's right to vote.
On August 18, 1920, Catt pinned a yellow rose to her dress and waited
while lawmakers in Tennessee cast their deciding votes to ratify the
19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
After a seventy-year campaign, had women finally won the right to vote?
Stirling's suspenseful retelling of the dramatic final "yea" that
changed the history of women's rights brings the past to life for young
readers.