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Cast your vote for Alice Paul! The story of a tireless suffragette and the president she convinced to change everything. When Alice Paul was a child, she saw her father go off to vote while her mother had to stay home. But why should that be? So Alice studied the Constitution and knew that the laws needed to change. But who would change them? She would! In her signature purple hat, Alice organized parades and wrote letters and protested outside the White House. She even met with President Woodrow Wilson, who told her there were more important issues to worry about than women voting. But nothing was more important to Alice. So she kept at it, and soon President Wilson was persuaded. Dean Robbins and illustrator Nancy Zhang bring the unsung hero to vivid life and show young voters-to-be how important it is to never back down from a cause you believe in!.
About the Author
Dean Robbins writes nonfiction children's picture books about his heroes, including "Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass" (Scholastic) ; "Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote" (Knopf) ; "Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing" (Knopf) ; "The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean" (Scholastic) ; "Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World" (Farrar Straus Giroux) , "The Fastest Girl on Earth!: Meet Kitty O'Neil, Daredevil Driver!" (Knopf) ; "Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines" (Candlewick) ; and "You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" (Scholastic) . His award-winning books have been featured on Public Radio International and praised in The New York Times, USA Today, Smithsonian, and other publications, along with receiving starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. They've also been chosen for best-of-the-year honors by Smithsonian, Space.com, the Cooperative Children's Book Center, and the Children's Book Council, among others. "Two Friends" was adapted as a short film by Weston Wood Studios. As a journalist, Robbins has contributed to USA Today, The New York Daily News, Space.com, and dozens of other media outlets. He draws on his journalism experience to interview the subjects of his children's books, including Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean and NASA's pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. Learn more at deanrobbins.net.
