• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 December #1
  *Starred Review* After the death of her husband and children from yellow fever and the loss of her business, Mary Harris, took up the cause of workers and the hardships they faced. This book, as full of spunk and bite as Mary herself, focuses on her children's march, an effort to alert the public to the plight of children, especially in mills, who were forced to work long hours, often in dangerous circumstances. When Mary, now known as Mother Jones, was thwarted by rich newspapermen, who were friends of mill owners, she decided to garner her own publicity by marching with 100 boys and girls, along with some adults to the summer home of President Theodore Roosevelt. Told in Mother Jones' first-person, rabble-rousing voice, this does an excellent job explaining the issues and detailing what happened as the marchers battled heat, exhaustion, and lack of funds. It may surprise young readers that by the end, only a few children were left and there were no immediate concrete results. Winter plays this not as a defeat, but the start of a movement that would eventually result in child labor laws.Younger readers might be a bit disappointed, but Winter's affirmative text, paired with Carpenter's dramatic art featuring an insistent Mother, dramatically demonstrate both the injustice and determination. Notes give more information about Mother Jones and clarify actual quotes. Grades K-2. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

Jonah Winter has written more than thirty highly acclaimed books for children, including The Secret Project, which received five starred reviews; Mickey Mantle: The Commerce Comet; Lillian's Right to Vote, which received four starred reviews; and You Never Heard of Casey Stengel, called "inspired" by the New York Times Book Review. Learn more at jonahwinter.com.

Nancy Carpenter is the illustrator of many books for children, including A Letter to My Teacher, by Deborah Hopkinson; Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books by Michelle Merckel; and Dear Mr. Washington by Lynn Cullen, called "hilarious and bright, with clever attention to detail," by School Library Journal in a starred review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can follow her on Twitter (@NancyCarpentr) and Facebook.