Katanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All

Skidmore's illustrations are vibrant and saturated with color. Their often impressionistic interpretation of events goes well with the song like feel of the text. The author's note at the end reinforces and explains the text of the book, and there is a nice bibliography of resources.

It's so important to have biographical picture books to inspire young readers. There is another biography of Brown Jackson by Carole Boston Weatherford (All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson, illustrated by Ashley Evans), and this is a great addition to an aspirational women's history collection that includes Bryant and Nakamura's Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX, Winter and Rodriguez's Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx, and Robbins and Green's You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Williams and Harrison's Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress. Skidmore's illustrations are vibrant and saturated with color. Their often impressionistic interpretation of events goes well with the song like feel of the text. The author's note at the end reinforces and explains the text of the book, and there is a nice bibliography of resources.

It's so important to have biographical picture books to inspire young readers. There is another biography of Brown Jackson by Carole Boston Weatherford (All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson, illustrated by Ashley Evans), and this is a great addition to an aspirational women's history collection that includes Bryant and Nakamura's Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX, Winter and Rodriguez's Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx, and Robbins and Green's You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Williams and Harrison's Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress.