A Voice From the Wilderness: The Story of Anna Howard Shaw

Don Brown

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sep 24, 2001 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages

By the time Anna Howard Shaw was barely twelve years old, she had crossed the stormy Atlantic (one and a half times), survived a grueling journey from Massachusetts to the unexplored woods of Michigan, and helped create a house and home in the middle of nowhere. By most measures, Anna Howard Shaw’s life was hard and filled with struggle.
But a life in the North American wilderness also had many pleasures. Anna was young, happy, and strong. What Anna didn’t have was school.
With incredible fortitude and purpose, not only did Anna go on to teach school herself, she also accomplished a great many other things, including helping to win the right to vote for women. With his magical storytelling and radiant artwork, Don Brown welcomes us into the pioneer life of a most extraordinary woman.

About the author

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him “a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies.” He lives in New York with his family.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Voice From the Wilderness: The Story of Anna Howard Shaw
• Author: Don Brown
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001
• ISBN: 0547561822, 9780547561820
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / General