Susan B. Anthony EZ Reader Review

Susan B. Anthony
By Kitson Jazynka
Published by National Geographic Kids, December 2019

Mom's Review
This is a biography of Susan B. Anthony for young readers. Children will learn that Anthony was born in Massachusetts, was a Quaker, campaigned for the abolishment of slavery and for women's rights, and died before women won the right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony is well worth reading with your emergent reader. I am changing my tune about EZ Readers, this series in particular. There are 4 reasons why I recommend Susan B. Anthony for young readers.

1. You read/I read
The book alternates between a page for an adult to read and a page for the child to read. T isn't able or eager to read a full book yet, so having set sections for me and for him helps to prevent him from feeling overwhelmed – helpful built-in scaffolding.

2. Your Turn
After each chapter, a section entitled "Your Turn" connects the content to children's lives. For example, after reading about Anthony's school experience, photographs of one-room schoolhouses and serious-looking students accompany an invitation to compare Anthony's experience to the readers' own.

3. the content
Susan B. Anthony's effort led to women winning the right to vote. I doubt anyone would argue with the importance of this women in our nation's history.

4. the photographs
Each page is full of eye-catching photographs in both color and black and white.

All in all, the Susan B. Anthony Level 1 EZ Reader from National Geographic Kids is unreservedly recommended by this mom and former first-grade teacher.

Son's Review
(Age: 5)

Relating to Anthony:
I have a school mixed with a farm. She is a lot like me. We signed a petition like Anthony!

On women not voting:
It's not fair.

If women can vote now:
Yes, because you vote. They changed the rules.

On "You read, I read:"
I don't know about it. You read, and then I read. You read, and then I read.
(Then he read with me.)

What he learned:
After she died, they changed the rules.

How he would honor Anthony:
I would make a statue. So I would stack up blocks and carve women and a smiley face and also a sad face and I would carve men and then that's it. The smiley face means that women can vote. The sad face means that women used to not vote.

Note: A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.