A delicately illustrated and easy Introduction for children to ideas of equality both, racial and gender. This book is lovely and idea for the classroom. The pages at the back are excellent for suggesting further reading and offering some more information to the reader.

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The illustrations in this picture book were like artwork, so beautiful. The story of votes for women from a child's perspective was well done. This would be a great living book to accompany your history text.

The Big Day is a fictional story celebrating Agnes Sadler and the right for African-American women to vote in Tennessee. Except for the last few pages, the bulk of the story was on Tansy getting ready for the "big day." The illustrations were cute and the historical context pages at the back were interesting and would be perfect in a classroom, I wish the book had focused more on the event than the child and her morning routine.

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The Big Day is a sweet picture book that tells about a girl and her mama on the day of their very first vote. It would make a nice addition to an early elementary classroom (k-2) library as a nice read aloud prior to introducing more in depth lessons on voting, elections, civil rights, and womens' rights. There is a well written afterward that tells about the inspiration for the book.

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The Big Day is a fictional tale based on true events. It is the story of Big Mama and Tansy getting to vote for the first time. The story is exciting and mysterious as Tansy tries to figure out why Big Mama keeps telling her its the big day. I love howbthis story includes pages at the back about history of women getting the right to vote. This is a great story to have in the classroom to base lessons on around election time

This gorgeously illustrated picture book shares a fictionalized story based on true events from 1919, when a Black woman cast a vote for the first time in Knoxville, Tennessee. The story's narration comes from the first person perspective of the woman's granddaughter, and conveys a sense of how historic and monumental this day was. I enjoyed reading this, admired the detailed and colorful illustrations, and was impressed with the in-depth historical notes in the back, which include a timeline, source notes, and additional information about women's suffrage, Also, the endpapers display reproductions of newspaper headlines related to the subject, which is a nice touch.

I personally wish that this book had focused more on voting, since a significant percentage of it covers the young girl's morning routines as she and her grandmother prepare for their special day and get dressed up. However, this book is beautifully designed and very educational, and the illustrations capture realistic details from everyday life in that era. This is a great book for both children and adults who are interested in voting rights, Black history, and this historical period.

This is a really great informative book that could definitely be shared with the classroom - I'd pitch it at year four - as there are a lot of questions that the text poses.
Although it is primarily a picture book - the back of the book provides facts and the history of women's coloured suffragette movement in America along with a timeline which is really handy for further class discussion.
The accompanying pictures are nice and bright and there are also plenty of questions that could be asked by looking at the pictures alone.