![]() NON-FICTION/ PICTURE BOOK Groundwood Books (Ananasi), 2019. How Emily Saved the Bridge by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Natalie Nelson. I wish it all hung together a bit better. I feel like there's a ton of potential in this book. I really like that her writings on women's issues and the fact that she got a law degree are included. Tell me what kind of school it was and how well she did there. It's like she doesn't get to lead her own narrative until everyone else is sick or dead.which might just be because that's the way it happened, but don't tell me her brother got her into school. He gets promoted to the job of bridge building, etc. Her husband decided to marry her in six weeks. ![]() I also get that this woman got into this position because of the men in her life, but it feels very male-dominated at the beginning. I feel like there's some good research happening here and I'm glad those details weren't cut, but there needs to be more to them and more joining them together. Part of me likes the little factoids sprinkled here and there, like what a cassion is and how they were sold terrible wire. I have mixed feelings about this way it's all put together. I like the facts about the bridge, I like the fact that this is a story being told, and I like her as a character. ![]() ![]() The book? There's some fun things about this book. First of all, these illustrations are not my jam, but I get that they are a style and that style is well done, so okay. ![]()
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