{"id":40528,"date":"2024-05-30T22:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40528"},"modified":"2024-05-30T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:37:46","slug":"review-of-shes-on-the-money-by-andrea-hall-illustrated-by-li-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40528","title":{"rendered":"Review of She’s on the Money, by Andrea Hall, illustrated by Li Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>She\u2019s on the Money<\/em><\/p>\n

by Andrea Hall
\nillustrated by Li Zhang<\/p>\n

Albert Whitman & Company, 2021. 32 pages.
\nReview written December 1, 2021, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

What a fun idea! This picture book gives short biographies of 15 women who appear or have appeared on currency somewhere in the world. Each woman gets a spread, with a page at the back for Britannia and a page for Lady Liberty. <\/p>\n

Some of the women are well-known, such as the first one presented, Cleopatra. Others I\u2019d never heard of, such as the last set presented, the Mirabal Sisters of the Dominican Republic. The women are presented in the order of the year they were born.<\/p>\n

There are more from America than anywhere else, but that\u2019s just two \u2013 Sacagawea and Helen Keller (who was on the Alabama quarter) \u2013 well, you may also count \u201cLady Liberty\u201d at the back. I like the wide range of countries represented.<\/p>\n

Also fun is the close look at the currency where the women are portrayed \u2013 I\u2019ve long said that other countries have much more interesting money and it shows the colorful bills and the symbolism next to the woman\u2019s portrait.<\/p>\n

A fascinating book. You can learn both about distinguished women and what money looks like in other countries. Now, I know they didn\u2019t present every woman who\u2019s ever been on currency, because Queen Elizabeth wasn\u2019t mentioned \u2013 but I do wish the book were fatter with more examples, and I fear that\u2019s because there aren\u2019t too many more examples out there. There is a note in the back about plans to put Harriet Tubman on the United States twenty dollar bill. May it be so.<\/p>\n

lizhangart.com<\/a>
\nalbertwhitman.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She\u2019s on the Money by Andrea Hall illustrated by Li Zhang Albert Whitman & Company, 2021. 32 pages. Review written December 1, 2021, from a library book Starred Review What a fun idea! This picture book gives short biographies of 15 women who appear or have appeared on currency somewhere in the world. Each woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43849,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/revisions\/43849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}