The Ballot Box Battle
Cordelia, a young girl living in 1880, becomes inspired by the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton to go to the polls with the women's rights activist to attempt to vote and fight for women's suffrage.
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| Interest Age |
0-6 years |
| Reading Age |
5-8 years |
| Library of Congress |
Women, Suffrage, Pictorial works, Juvenile fiction |
| NBS Text |
School Textbooks & Study Guides: Literature, Arts & Humanities |
| ONIX Text |
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school |
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| Number of Pages |
32 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 205mm
Height: 255mm
Spine: 3mm |
| Weight |
137g |
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| Dewey Code |
813.54 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Textbook
Illustrated in full color. Just in time for the presidential election comes
Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully's stirring tale of a young girl's act
of bravery inspired by the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is the fall of
1880, and Cordelia is more interested in horse riding than in hearing her
neighbor, Mrs. Stanton talk about her fight for women's suffrage. But on
Election Day, Mrs. Stanton tells the heart-wrenching story of her childhood.
Charged with the story's message, Cordelia determines to go with Mrs. Stanton
to the polls in an attempt to vote--above the jeers and taunts of the male
crowd. With faces, landscapes, and action scenes brought to life by McCully's
virtuosic illustrations, Cordelia's turning-point experience is sure to inspire
today's young girls (and boys) everywhere.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
* McCully's richly hued, softly textured paintings beautifully evoke the late 19th-century era...skillfully weaving fact and story, The Ballot Box Battle offers a history lesson pleasingly framed in a story about an independent young girl ( School Library Journal, starred review). |
| US Review |
The author of The Bobbin Girl (p. 230) offers another strong, admirable character in this encounter between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a young neighbor. Every afternoon Cordelia comes over to care for Mrs. Stanton's horse in exchange for a riding lesson - plus a series of reminiscences to which she listens politely, if not always attentively. One day, after explaining how her strenuous but futile childhood efforts to win her father's respect taught her to keep on fighting, Mrs. Stanton invites Cordelia to come along to the polls as she quixotically tries yet again to vote. Her example before a jeering (as well as, in one or two cases, admiring) throng of men and boys inspires an act of courage in Cordelia. An author's note at the end separates facts and fictions. Like Michael Bedard's Emily (1992), this book gives readers a tantalizing, child's-eye view of an American original, a challenger of social norms and expectations. McCully's dark, vigorously brushed watercolors successfully evoke both period (1880) and personalities: Stanton is a glowering, formidable presence, while Cordelia, with her straight back, pinafore, and large hair ribbon is a poised, blonde soulmate to Mirette. (Kirkus Reviews) |
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