Leave It to Abigail!: The Revolutionary Life of Abigail Adams
by Barb Rosenstock (Author) Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator)
In this inspiring tribute, award-winning author Barb Rosenstock and New York Times bestselling artist Elizabeth Baddeley tell the true story of one of America's greatest founding mothers: Abigail Adams.
Everyone knew Abigail was different.
Instead of keeping quiet, she blurted out questions. Instead of settling down with a wealthy minister, she married a poor country lawyer named John Adams. Instead of running from the Revolutionary War, she managed a farm and fed hungry soldiers. Instead of leaving the governing to men, she insisted they "Remember the Ladies." Instead of fearing Europe's kings and queens, she boldly crossed the sea to represent her new country. And when John become President of the United States, Abigail became First Lady, and a powerful advisor.
Leave it to Abigail--an extraordinary woman who surprised the world.
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This biographical picture book bills Abigail Adams as a woman who rose to every challenge. The book's title acts as a refrain as readers see Abigail fly in the face of her era's niceties ("Everyone knew that good girls kept quiet"), manage a complex household and farm on her own during wartime, suggest to her husband rights for America's women, and serve as his closest presidential advisor. The artwork combines elements of cross-stitch needlework with illustrations that have a high-spirited, comic-strip sensibility, and the story moves along briskly as Abigail's life and her loving, often epistolary relationship with John unfolds in tandem with the birth of the new republic. While an author's note acknowledges that Abigail did not believe women should be equal "in the modern sense," both Rosenstock and Baddeley tell her story with plenty of verve and forthrightly feminist swagger. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)
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Elizabeth Baddeley is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling illustrator of such titles as I Dissent, The Cat Who Lived With Anne Frank, An Inconvenient Alphabet, A Woman in the House (and Senate), Women Who Broke the Rules, and The Good Fight, among others. She lives in Missouri.
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF025190 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/Colonial & Revolutionary
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
JNF007130 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & First Families (U.S.)
Presidents' spouses
Adams, Abigail
