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By the time Anna Howard Shaw was barely twelve years old, she had crossed the stormy Atlantic (one and a half times), survived a grueling journey from Massachusetts to the unexplored woods of Michigan, and helped create a house and home in the middle of nowhere. By most measures, Anna Howard Shaw's life was hard and filled with struggle.
But a life in the North American wilderness also had many pleasures. Anna was young, happy, and strong. What Anna didn't have was school.
With incredible fortitude and purpose, not only did Anna go on to teach school herself, she also accomplished a great many other things, including helping to win the right to vote for women. With his magical storytelling and radiant artwork, Don Brown welcomes us into the pioneer life of a most extraordinary woman.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 1-4-Brown hones in on a little-known figure. The book focuses on Shaw's tumultuous childhood and young adulthood marked by her long, stormy journey from England to Massachusetts in 1851, hardscrabble pioneering days in the Michigan woods when she was 12, self-education, and college and medical school. The fact that she was a trailblazer for women's rights is only brought to light near the end of the volume. Full-page, at times cartoonlike, pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations are pleasing to the eye. One spread, showing Anna and her brother planting and fishing, is particularly touching. Another, awash in blue, reveals perfectly her mother's despair at attempting pioneer life with young children and an absent husband. Most of the information for this text comes from Shaw's autobiography, written in 1915. Because of the relative obscurity of the subject, this title might be overlooked on library shelves but it would be suited for classroom reading. An attractive and readable selection.-Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Focusing on another intrepid woman from the past, Brown (Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa; Ruth Law Thrills a Nation) offers an anecdotal account of the life of Shaw, who is perhaps best known for her work as a suffragette. Her family emigrates to the U.S. from England in the mid-19th century and settles in Massachusetts. Yet Anna's father "believed a better life awaited the family in the West"; he and his son James travel to the wilds of Michigan to build a rudimentary cabin, which Anna and her siblings later make habitable. Weaving into his narrative Shaw's words from her 1915 autobiography, Brown explains how she takes charge after her father and James return east; she digs a well, plants crops, etc. As a young woman, she works as a teacher and seamstress, enrolls in college and later becomes a minister, then a doctor careers that Brown notes women "were discouraged from entering at the time." A concluding author's note fleshes out Shaw's story, while ironically emphasizing certain events more than those covered in the chronicle. Most notably, the narrative's minimal mention of Shaw's work for the women's suffrage movement does little to support the idea of these efforts as "her life's work," as Brown describes them in his afterword. Ultimately, this intriguing portrait of a true pioneer, with softly focused pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations that underscore the barren Michigan landscape, may well ignite further reading on Shaw. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Primary) Sidestepping the better-known Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Brown settles his attention on Anna Howard Shaw, a pioneer for womenÕs suffrage. As with his previous picture-book biographies, Brown concentrates on his subjectÕs childhood years. Brown knows his youthful audienceÑthey will appreciate hearing how the young Anna tried to eat her first banana unpeeled and how she went fishing using the wires from her hoop skirt. Simply yet respectfully, Brown speaks to his young audience with his own words often poignantly augmented by those of Anna Howard Shaw. For instance, when AnnaÕs mother first sees their pioneer home in Michigan, Òa forlorn log cabin,Ó and collapses, Brown writes that Òshe lay in a heap. Night fell. Wildcats cried and wolves howled.Ó Then he quotes Shaw, who comments that her motherÕs Òface never lost the deep lines those first hours of pioneer life cut upon it.Ó BrownÕs muted watercolor palette, spacious composition, and figures with minimal features make his characters and occasionally his landscapes seem interchangeable. Still, his great ability to capture human emotion through posture, particularly a sense of aloneness that often gives way to fellowship, makes his books rich reading and viewing. Readers will cheer the audacious Anna, whose achievements were born of her pioneering spirit. An authorÕs note provides the web address for the e-text edition of ShawÕs autobiography, The Story of a Pioneer, from which BrownÕs book was drawn. s.p.b. From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Brown (Mary Kingsley in Africa, 2000, etc.) relies on Anna Howard Shaw's autobiography as the inspiration for his account of a woman whose pioneer background prepared her for the causes she championed in her adult life. "By most measures, Anna Howard Shaw's life was hard and filled with struggle. But Anna used her own scale and kept her own measurements, and that made all the difference." So begins the story of a young girl who survived a perilous crossing of the Atlantic, settled in Massachusetts, and then spent one and a half years in the Michigan wilds, where the family was 100 miles from the railroad and 40 miles from a post office. Although Anna learned to hook fish with the iron wires from her hoop skirts and chop sod with an ax to plant corn and potatoes, she didn't have any schooling. But there were books and she read histories, novels, and math texts until she knew them by heart. She was a schoolteacher at 15 and eventually graduated from college and received a medical degree-highly unusual for a woman in her time. She became a minister and was angered by the fact that women's wages were half of what a man earned. She spoke to people around the world, battling for women to win the right to vote since that was, to her, the first step to independence for women. Anna Shaw died one year before the woman's right to vote became law. Elegant phrasing and seamless narration complement pastel watercolors. The paintings are especially effective in conveying the mood of the text. Quiet, lovely scenes of the forest are in contrast to the lively scenes of the children carrying out chores. An author's note fleshes out the details of this extraordinary woman's life. (Biography. 7-9)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 6-8. The author of Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa (2000), Brown works his alchemy on an absorbing story of a woman almost unknown. Anna Howard Shaw crossed the Atlantic, lived in Massachusetts and then in the wilds of Michigan, carving out a wilderness life with her mother and siblings while her father and her older brothers worked back East. Self-taught, she became a schoolteacher at age 15, and later earned a college degree in theology. What she preached was women's right to vote, which became law just after her death in 1919. Brown illuminates character with fine, sure, simple strokes, and the softness of his signature watercolors effectively mitigate the reality of a hard life lived with strength and purpose. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido