Unwrapping a beautiful biography today of an extremely smart, ultra brave groundbreaking woman who wants to become a doctor in the late 19-th century. It's extremely interesting and informative. I think it's a winner.
Unwrapping
"Dr. Jo"
HOW SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER SAVED THE LIVES OF AMERICA’S CHILDREN
By MONICA KULLING
Illustrated by JULIANNA SWANEY
* Age Range: 7-9
* Grade Level: K-3
* Publisher: Tundra Books
* Pub. Date: October 9, 2018
* Language: English
Unwrapping some wonderful illustrations for you
About the book
I love time-period books and I love biographies. You learn so much from the past and discover the root of things that we just take for granted in our modern day world.
Sara Josephine Barker, or Jo as she is referred to, wants with all her heart to become a doctor. She looses both her beloved brother and father to typhoid fever. She hurts her knee and is cared for by a kind physician and his son which motivates her even more to fulfill her dream.
In 1868 she applies, and luckily is accepted, to the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary and bravely sets off moving towards her destiny. Unfortunately she is ahead of her time and when she and a female friend set up a practice together they find people are wary of having women physicians. Her clients are sparse causing the two to close down their clinic. But what she has in store for her is a million times more important for her accomplish in her lifetime.
Jo becomes a health inspector for the city and is assigned to Hell's Kitchen, a poor, run-down, immigrant neighborhood where babies and children have a very high death rate. Dr. Jo uses her skills to tend to the sick children and she finds solutions to many of the problems that are causing premature deaths in the youngsters. She trains midwives, sets up milk stations in storefronts, discovers safe containers for silver nitrate eyedrops that are used for newborns and creates baby clothes that allows airflow and movement. Her designs open down the front and make changing diapers easier and vulnerable babies less susceptible to heatstroke.
"By the end of her career, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker had saved the lives of 90,000 inner-city children across America. People were always happy to see Dr. Jo coming their way!"
This book is an inspiration to young people to follow their dreams and Dr. Jo is a strong role model for doing just that. The illustrations are water-colour, gouache, and coloured-pencil and the colour pallet is perfect to depict that era. The author cites sources at the end where the reader can go deeper into this fascinating and very important trailblazer of a strong woman. I love the book and highly recommend it.
Jo becomes a health inspector for the city and is assigned to Hell's Kitchen, a poor, run-down, immigrant neighborhood where babies and children have a very high death rate. Dr. Jo uses her skills to tend to the sick children and she finds solutions to many of the problems that are causing premature deaths in the youngsters. She trains midwives, sets up milk stations in storefronts, discovers safe containers for silver nitrate eyedrops that are used for newborns and creates baby clothes that allows airflow and movement. Her designs open down the front and make changing diapers easier and vulnerable babies less susceptible to heatstroke.
"By the end of her career, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker had saved the lives of 90,000 inner-city children across America. People were always happy to see Dr. Jo coming their way!"
This book is an inspiration to young people to follow their dreams and Dr. Jo is a strong role model for doing just that. The illustrations are water-colour, gouache, and coloured-pencil and the colour pallet is perfect to depict that era. The author cites sources at the end where the reader can go deeper into this fascinating and very important trailblazer of a strong woman. I love the book and highly recommend it.
Storywraps Rating: 5 HUGS +++!!!!!
Girls can do anything they set their mind to!
Meet the author
Monica Kulling was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Victoria. Monica is the author of over 50 books for children, including the popular Great Idea series, stories of inventors. The third book in the series, In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up, was chosen as a Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award Honor Book by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The sixth book in the series, Spic-and-Span! Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder Kitchen won the North Dakota Library Association 2016 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award in the nonfiction category. Monica Kulling lives in Toronto, Canada.
Follow Storywraps
Girls can do anything they set their mind to!
Meet the author
Monica Kulling was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Victoria. Monica is the author of over 50 books for children, including the popular Great Idea series, stories of inventors. The third book in the series, In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up, was chosen as a Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award Honor Book by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The sixth book in the series, Spic-and-Span! Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder Kitchen won the North Dakota Library Association 2016 Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award in the nonfiction category. Monica Kulling lives in Toronto, Canada.
About the illustrator
JULIANNA SWANEY is an illustrator, designer and fine artist whose work is inspired by themes of imagination, whimsy and melancholy. She studied printmaking at Maine College of Art (BFA 2005) and works in pencil, watercolor or gouache on paper. Dr. Jo is her first book with Tundra.
Follow Storywraps
*Instagram: Storywraps
*Email: storywrapsblog@gmail.com
*Facebook: www.facebook.com/Storywraps
*Twitter: Storywraps@Storywraps1
Pinterest: Storywraps
I put hours of work finding the best kid's books to review for you each day. If you enjoy visiting Storywraps and would like to donate something for my time and effort I would greatly appreciate it.
Go to the top of my blog at the right hand corner (below my photo) and please donate what you feel lead to give. The amount you donate and the frequency you donate is totally up to you. I thank you in advance for your support. I love what I do and appreciate any amount that you may give so I can make our community even better. Thanks a million!
Read on...
Read always.
It's a wrap!
💜💜💜
💜💜💜
No comments:
Post a Comment