(3) K-3 Illustrated by Alice Ratterree. Emotional free verse describes Jane Addams's individualism, determination, and compassion. Slade relates Jane's personal sadness and joys, and how an empathetic spirit allowed her to open Hull House for needy immigrants, work tirelessly to end WWI, and win a Nobel Peace Prize, all despite harsh criticism. Ratterree's natural-palette watercolors capture the biography's energy and emotion. "More about Dangerous Jane" is appended. Timeline. Bib.

Reviewer: Christina Dorr

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Kathryn Brown. Stone bypasses her subject's many accolades to show her in a strictly human light. At age six, Addams realized that her privilege was not universal. The adult Addams started a settlement house in 1889 to help Chicago's vast immigrant population; Hull House would become a template for the modern community center. Addams's matter-of-fact noblesse oblige is captured in handsome watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations. Bib.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2015

(2) 4-6 Nobel Peace Prize winner Addams is remembered as a humanitarian, but she was despised as well as internationally admired during her lifetime. Illustrated with many photographs, this carefully documented and well developed account draws from Addams's own writings on the value of human life. The Fradins present a complex woman whose ideas are enduring and timely. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Margaret A. Bush | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2006

(4) YA World Writers series. Nobel Peace Prize-winner Addams--pacifist, children's and women's rights advocate, founder of Hull House--is profiled in this able if occasionally lacking biography. Great anecdotes (as one about Addams's meeting with Leo Tolstoy) occasionally muscle out basic information (we learn only as an aside that Addams helped found the NAACP in 1909). Black-and-white photos are scattered throughout. Timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) 4-6 How It Was series. Following lengthy introductions that provide factual information, the volumes shift into fictional accounts to provide readers with a picture of a day spent at these locations in their prime. The prose has little literary value, but the scenarios offer a personalized glimpse at the past. Informational sidebars and color photos accompany the texts. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(3) YA Historical American Biographies series. These effective, if formulaic, biographies are well documented with chapter notes. Information boxes supplement the main texts (for instance, a reference to Mark Twain seeing a Pony Express rider is accompanied by a sidebar that provides a brief overview of the Express). Unexceptional black-and-white photos illustrate the lucidly written books. Time lines are included. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta