Around America to Win the Vote
Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles

Name: Around America to Win the Vote
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Mara Rockliff
ISBN: 9781666570922

Author: Mara Rockliff

Narrator: Marge Sudheimer

Unabridged: 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 04/23/2019

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, Girls & Women, History, Us History

Synopsis

In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women’s suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would not let anything keep them from spreading the word about equal voting rights for women. Braving blizzards, deserts, and naysayers—not to mention a whole lot of tires stuck in the mud—the two courageous friends made their way through the cities and towns of America to further their cause. One hundred years after Nell and Alice set off on their trip, Mara Rockliff revives their spirit in this lively and whimsical tale.

About Mara Rockliff

Mara Rockliff is the author of many lively historical books for children, including Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France, winner of the Cook Prize and an Orbis Pictus Honor book. Her newest picture book biographies are Billie Jean! and Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her family. For more information, visit mararockliff.com.

About Hadley Hooper

Hadley Hooper is an experienced illustrator and painter with a bachelor's degree in painting and illustration from the Kansas City Art Institute. A freelancer for national magazines, she has had an extensive gallery career, including an installation piece at the Denver Art Museum, and has illustrated many books for authors such as Patricia MacLachlan and Mara Rockcliffe. She currently resides with her husband and their dog in Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit hadleyhooper.com.

About Marge Sudheimer

Marge Sudheimer is an audiobook narrator and actor who has performed in several Waterville Playshop productions as well as commercials. Recently retired from a care-giving career where she helped the disabled, she enjoys the opportunity that audiobook narration gives her to use her gift of speaking to interpret written works. A proud mother and grandmother, she lives with her husband, Ray, in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

As if a story about two suffragettes traveling around the country with a kitten wouldn't be entertaining enough, add to it that no one was really doing anything like that at the time, so these women were pioneers for women's rights as well as pioneers in the history of automobiles! Very entertaining......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine

About: Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles is a Children’s picture book written by Mara Rockliff and illustrated by Hadley Hooper. It was published on 8/2/16 by Candlewick Press, 40 pages. The genres are picture books, non-fiction, history, biography, and chil......more

Goodreads review by QNPoohBear

In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car to win the vote for American women. They brought along a kitten, a sewing machine, a typewriter, tools and spare parts-everything they needed to loop around the country. The sewing machine and apron woul......more

Goodreads review by Edward

The true story of two suffragettes and their kitten who hit the road in 1916 and make history campaigning for women's voting rights . Good end matter information providing historical and lively retro illustrations by Hadley Hooper.......more