You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
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2000 Publishers Weekly Flying Start Award
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Children's Literature Choice List
Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books
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Would you DAREto bare your underwear? If you like CLOTHESand people with the courage to SKIRTconventions and address injustice then Amelia Bloomer and her unFITTINGideas will charm the PANTSoff you!
Amelia Bloomer,a rebellious reformer and early women's rights activist, invented bloomers (baggy pantaloons worn with a short skirt over them), thus liberating women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. Here is her story, told in buoyant, witty text and beautiful, high styled-illustrations.
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