You can take the teacher out of the classroom but you can't take the mindset of being in the classroom out of the teacher. It was only when I was searching for books to read on vacation that I came across Chelsea Clinton's children's picture book, She Persisted: 13 American Women who Changed the World. (There's another follow-up book called She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History.
The material covered material I taught my fifth grade classroom. I was visiting with my granddaughter who will be starting fifth grade in the fall. I thought I'd read the book and see if I felt it was something worthwhile for her to read.
I'm wondering what age child this book was really written for. It's way too sketchy to be of much value to a fifth grader. It's most appropriate as a book that a parent might read aloud to a younger child at home. Women have been changing the world for centuries.
The book is not at all political. It's nicely done. But as I said, it didn't have enough meat in it for it to be a book that I would have bought to have in my classroom library.
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