A review by erine
Doing Her Bit: A Story about the Woman's Land Army of America by Erin Hagar

4.0

It never ceases to amaze me how women came to be known as the weaker sex. In yet another historical example of how breaking down ridiculous stereotypes can benefit everyone, here we find that World War I has taken many of the male farm laborers and sent them to war. Who can do their work? Who, indeed. Well, not to spoil it for you, but the women do it. They train and they learn and they work, and they bring in the harvest. It's a shocking twist, one you would never have seen coming. The illustrations bring the era to life, making good use of drab, farm-type coloring.

An exasperating story, but one that needs to be told so that we don't forget what happens when we write off an entire portion of the population as incapable or unworthy.