America’s founding document, explained to kids
WE THE PEOPLE by Aura Lewis and Evan Sargent is a beautifully illustrated, concisely written, and refreshingly engaging take on our country’s founding document.
By using the document itself as the hooks to hang history on, the authors take readers on a journey through the articles of the constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rest of the amendments. Each page is a treasure trove of historical “wow” moments, from women’s suffrage to racial profiling to the history of abolition.
Easy-to-understand, short snippets are paired with vintage-inspired graphics in an oversized volume, deserving of a permanent spot in a child’s growing library of reference books.
It’s a keeper.
Meet Stacey Abrams, learn about gerrymandering, and how on earth (or in space, rather) do astronauts get to vote?
RBG (Supreme Court Justice & champion of Equal Rights), Bobbi Jean Three Legs (Dakota Pipeline activist) and Shirley Chisholm (the first Black woman to seek a party’s nomination) are just a few of the many people young readers will meet in WE THE PEOPLE.
“The Constitution was supposedly written for all people who live in the U.S.,” write Lewis and Sargent. “However, because it was written by a small number of white men with power, we have to read it critically.”
WE THE PEOPLE by Aura Lewis and Evan Sargent, published by Quarto Kids (2020).
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A note about this review: I received free advance reader copies of these books from Quarto Kids. I am under no obligation to review these books and all opinions are my own.
