The Horn Book Guide

HISTORY

Van Rynbach, Iris , Shea, Pegi Deitz

The Taxing Case of the Cows: A True Story About Suffrage

32 pp. | Clarion | October, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-23631-5 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Faced with an unjust new tax, Julia and Abby Smith protested: since they couldn't vote, this was taxation without representation. After the sisters’ cows are confiscated, the American Woman Suffrage Association, as well as newspapers nationwide, took up the story. Van Rynbach and Shea appealingly present the resourcefulness of two nineteenth-century women. McCully’s illustrations show the aging sisters and their humorously vivacious cows.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2011