A review by nerdybirdy101
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote by Kate Messner

3.0

I was really disappointed in this book. I was hoping it would give a better overview of the history of women’s suffrage in the US in easier terms for children. While it did contextualize that for children there were some parts that made my inner historian cringe. The one thing that got me the most was that the author mentioned Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ and did not make the connection to the French Revolution. I thought that was a missed opportunity to show the connections between countries and the rights for women. I might put this book in my classroom for students to read just so they are exposed to the content, but then I would recommend other books for a more thorough discussion.