Sacajawea (Women Who Broke the Rules Series)

by Kathleen Krull, Matt Collins (Illustrator)

Overview

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Many awe-inspiring women have changed the course of history. From fighting for social justice and women's rights to discovering and shaping our amazing country, women have left an indelible mark on our past, present, and future. But it's not easy to affect change, and these women didn't always play by the rules to make a difference! Kathleen Krull blends history and humor in this accessible young biography series.

Sacajawea was only sixteen when she made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history. She traveled over four thousand miles by foot, canoe, and horse-all while carrying a baby on her back! Without her, the Lewis and Clark expedition might have failed. Two hundred years later, we still can see how her unique journey demonstrated the strength and value of women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802738004
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Series:	Women Who Broke the Rules Series
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

KATHLEEN KRULL is an acclaimed biographer for young readers. Her books have received rave reviews and won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe/ Horn Book Honor Award. She is also the author of Louisa May's Battle, Pocahontas, and A Woman for President. Kathleen lives in San Diego, California, with her husband. Visit Kathleen online at www.kathleenkrull.com.

MATT COLLINS is the illustrator of numerous picture book biographies, including the A Picture Book of series by David and Michael Adler. He lives in Connecticut. Visit him online at www.mattcollins.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Strangers Come to Town 7

Chapter 2 To the Rescue 13

Chapter 3 A Token of Peace 22

Chapter 4 The Terrible Mountains 27

Chapter 5 At The Ocean 34

Chapter 6 Her Rewards 42

Sources and Further Reading 47

Index 48

Editorial Reviews

Interior color illustrations, executed by different illustrators and in different styles, further enhance these titles. Visually appealing, with quality information, these books are ideal offerings.” —School Library Journal

“This brisk and pithy series kickoff highlights Sacagawea's unique contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition . . . . [Y]oung readers will come away properly inspired by the examples of these admirable rule-breakers. The author of the justly renowned What the Neighbors Thought series digs a little deeper with these equally engaging single volumes.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2015-03-17
This brisk and pithy series kickoff highlights Sacagawea's unique contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Joining her "clueless" French-Canadian husband and so becoming "part of one of the smartest hiring decisions in history," 16-year-old Sacagawea not only served as translator and diplomat along the way, but proved an expert forager, cool-headed when disaster threatened, and a dedicated morale booster during four gloomy months in winter quarters. She also cast a vote for the location of those quarters, which the author points to as a significant precedent in the history of women's suffrage. Krull closes with a look at her subject's less-well-documented later life and the cogent observation that not all Native Americans regard her in a positive light. In Collins' color paintings, she poses gracefully in fringed buckskins, and her calm, intelligent features shine on nearly every page. The subjects of the three co-published profiles, though depicted by different illustrators, look similarly smart and animated—and behave that way too. Having met her future husband on a "date," Dolley Madison (illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher) goes on to be a "rock star," for instance. Long before she becomes a Supreme Court justice with a "ginormous" work load, Sonia Sotomayor (illustrated by Angela Dominguez) is first met giving her little brother a noogie. Though Krull's gift for artfully compressed narrative results in a misleading implication that the battle of New Orleans won the War of 1812 for the United States, and there is no mention of Forever… in her portrait of "the most banned author in America," Judy Blume (illustrated by David Leonard), young readers will come away properly inspired by the examples of these admirable rule-breakers. The author of the justly renowned What the Neighbors Thought series digs a little deeper with these equally engaging single volumes. (source and reading lists, indexes) (Biography. 9-11)

Kirkus Reviews