Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

With superbly researched information and detailed illustrations, Anderson and Faulkner combine historical facts and humor together in this engaging--and long overdue--homage to the women and the role they played in the founding of America. Full color. Listen up You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story?

What about the women? The girls? The dames?

Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner prove the case in this entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to those independent dames