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Reviewed on April 1, 2019 | Nonfiction
PreS-Gr 2-Davis sets out to simply tell the story of 27 young women who served during World War II in the logging industry. Told in simple sentences with a counting cadence, the story reads like a soothing lullaby. Watercolor illustrations portray the forests as lush green areas where these women worked hard to do their jobs and lived far from their families and homes. The story does not read as exceptionalism, but clearly explains the duty these "Lumber Jills" agreed to take on, with "two hands wil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More