She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt (She Made History) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 13: She Made History

HARRIS, JENNIFER

 
9780807573228: She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt (She Made History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807573221 ISBN 13: 9780807573228
Publisher: GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES, 2021

Synopsis

At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond--to space.

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen's daughters, who, like their mother, lived in a time when girls and women were expected to limit their pursuit of knowledge, and who may have been inspired to dream bigger and look farther.

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About the Authors

Jennifer Harris is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature. This is her first book for children.



Louise Pigott creates vibrant, detailed, and atmospheric illustrations for children's books and greeting cards that have appeared around the world.

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Publisher
GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807573221
ISBN 13 
9780807573228
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
32