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I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote  Christopher Award Winner Melanie Kroupa Books Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Fall 2005 ISBN: 0-374-33527-3 ages 4-8 "I Could D o That!" says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea for their large family. Start her own business at the age of nineteen? Why, she could do that, too! But one thing Esther and other women could not do was vote. Only men could do that. As Esther faces one challenge after another, her gumption propels her through a hardscrabble life until, in 1869, she moves with her husband and sons to the bustling, young Wyoming Territory. Here in the Wild West town of South Pass City, gunshots blast and gold fever burns. But Esther Morris knows opportunity when she sees it. Get the vote for Wyoming women? Become the first woman in the United States to hold public office? "It's time I did that!" Awards and Recognitions: Junior Library Guild selection
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Copies included in Oriental Baby, a magazine for kids in China
Starred reviews – School Library Journal and Booklist
Reviews – Kirkus
Bank Street College Children’s Book Committees’monthly pick
Oppenheim Toy Foundation Gold Book Award
Book Sense Selection
ALA Booklinks Lasting Connections Book
ALA Booklist Editor’s Choice Book
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books recommendation
New York Times Book Review
Christopher Award
CCBC Choices, best of the year book list
Amelia Bloomer Project American Library Association
Parents' Choice Foundation Reading List book Storytelling World Honor Award | |
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