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She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt

She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt

Harris, Jennifer
Pigott, Louise

Hardcover

Series: She Made History

General Juvenile FictionHistoryScience & Nature

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ISBN10: 0807573221
ISBN13: 9780807573228
Publisher: Whitman Albert & Co
Published: Oct 1 2021
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.19 Depth: 10.08
Language: English

At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond--to space.

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen's daughters, who, like their mother, lived in a time when girls and women were expected to limit their pursuit of knowledge, and who may have been inspired to dream bigger and look farther.

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