(3) K-3 Illustrated by Matt Faulkner. Rappaport's broad survey of women's suffrage (from early America to ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment) touches on many important people and events to explain the movement's scope. Faulkner's caricaturish illustrations are massively expressive and make interesting use of perspective and scale--as when, for instance, male lawmakers tower over undeterred suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Reading list, timeline, websites.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) YA Essential Lives series. This series offers serviceable if bland biographies of people famous in a variety of arenas. The writing is straightforward, and frequent sidebars help with historical context. Some photographs and archival materials also break up the pages. The volume on the one contemporary subject in this group (Jobs) is less assured than the others. There are six other new books in this series. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Essential Lives titles: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Steve Jobs, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucretia Mott, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

(3) 4-6 Women of Achievement series. These biographies of two American activists, both of them abolitionists and founders of the women's rights movement, describe in direct, lucid prose the lives and accomplishments of their subjects and the history of the era. The volumes are generously illustrated with nineteenth-century photos and drawings. Both books contain time lines. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam