VERDICT This dynamic offering is an essential purchase that will be useful for completing assignments as well as for pleasure reading.- Rebecca Gueorguiev, New York Public Library Back matter includes photos of Ginsburg, more information on her life and the Supreme Court cases alluded to in the text, and a bibliography with quotation sources. The use of colorful and bold typography to highlight words such as protest, object, dissent, disagree, and agree injects life into the work. The writing is appropriately succinct for its intended audience and is nicely complemented by Baddeley’s richly illustrated cartoonish drawings. Supreme Court, and her work as an associate justice. The majority of the narrative focuses on Ginsburg’s law career, her entry into the U.S. The text goes on to briefly cover her high school, college, and law school years, as well as her marriage to Martin Ginsburg and the birth of her two children. Students will delight as they watch a young Ginsburg “protest” being forced to write with her right hand (she was left-handed) and “object” to being made to take home economics instead of shop class. This picture book biography of Justice Ginsburg traces her achievements in the field of law back to her girlhood years, emphasizing for readers the importance of dissent in the face of an unequal society. I didn’t know before that Justice Ginsburg wears a different lace collar over her robes when she writes a majority opinion from the one she wears when she writes a dissenting opinion.Ruth Bader Ginsburg grew up in a time different from today girls were taught to aspire to be wives and mothers-not study at college and become lawyers. There are notes at the back with more information and listing specific cases. They speak in general terms of cases she presented before the Supreme Court, and then her appointment to the Supreme Court. After she got married, her family agreed that it was best for her husband to do the cooking.īut the bulk of the book covers her career as a lawyer. I like the pages where it tells what she doesn’t do well – cooking and singing. Ruth was left-handed, but was told to use her right hand and got a D in penmanship – until she protested.
We learn about her childhood in 1940 in an immigrant neighborhood, her love of reading, and family travels where they saw signs that Jews weren’t allowed. This is how Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed her life – and ours.Īlthough the story is told quite simply, it’s still filled with details. You could say that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life has been.
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