Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 - Rilegato

Markel, Michelle

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ISBN 10: 0061804428 ISBN 13: 9780061804427

Casa editrice: Balzer & Bray, 2013

Riassunto

An engagingly illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“The zingy images masterfully (and appropriately) incorporate fabric and stitches as well as old images of checks and time cards ... This book has fighting spirit in spades-you go, Clara!” (Booklist (starred review))

“Readers are treated to solid information with a buoyant message about standing up for what is right. Sweet has created an outstanding backdrop for Markel’s text with a vibrant collage of watercolor, gouache, blank dress-pattern paper, bookkeeping pages, stitches, and fabric pieces.” (School Library Journal (starred review))

“Sweet incorporates images of assorted fabrics and stitch patterns into her tender illustrations, brightening the lives of workers whose reality was bleak.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“In her simple but powerful text Markel shows how multiple arrests, serious physical attacks, and endless misogyny failed to deter this remarkable woman as she set off on her lifelong path as a union activist.” (The Horn Book)

“Markel ably brings to life the plight of immigrant garment workers and Clara’s courageous advocacy.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)

L'autore:

Michelle Markel loves writing narrative nonfiction. She’s the author of Brave Girl, which won the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Younger Children, and was also chosen as an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Her recent titles are Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead (on the Amelia Bloomer Project List of feminist literature) and Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books. She lives in Woodland Hills, California. You can visit her online at www.michellemarkel.com.

Melissa Sweet has illustrated more than one hundred books. Her work has been in magazines, on greeting cards, and on her living room walls. Melissa has received the Caldecott Honor Medal twice, among many other awards, including the Sibert Medal, and is a New York Times bestselling author and artist. Melissa lives in Maine. You can visit her at www.melissasweet.net.

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• Editore: Balzer & Bray
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061804428
• ISBN 13: 9780061804427
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 32
• Disegnatore: Sweet Melissa