Meg Belviso

Part of the Who? What? Where? Series, this biography on Susan B. Anthony offers an overview of Susan's life from growing up as a Quaker in the 1820s and 30s to a champion for women's right to vote. The prologue presents Susan as a grown woman, feisty and ready to tackle the US government for the right to vote alongside men. The following chapters highlight how various people and events impacted her sense of right and wrong, and her desire to see women as leaders in society. The back and white artwork is realistic and is helps break up larger chunks of writing, making this book appropriate for readers at varying levels of complexity. Susan's story brushes up against other notable people and topics and the book adds contextual information such as a description of who the Quakers and who Fredrick Douglas was. These bits of context are stylized as inserts and given special attention in order to highlight their significance in history. Overall, this book is a good overview on Susan B. Anthony's impact on the suffragist movement. I would have liked to see some explanation of how Susan's vision was carried out after her death in 1906. Women were granted the right to vote in 1920 and it would make sense to explain, perhaps in an insert, who carried on her vision.… (meer)