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    The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams

    By Tanya Lee Stone and Kathryn Brown

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    This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.

    Ever since she was a little girl, Jane Addams hoped to help people in need. She wanted to live right in the middle of the roughest, poorest communities and create a place where people could go to find food, work, and help. In 1889, she bought a house in a run-down Chicago neighborhood and turned it into a settlement home, adding on playgrounds, kindergartens, and a public bath. By 1907, Hull House included thirteen buildings. And by the early 1920s, more than 9,000 people visited Jane's home each week. An inspiration to all, Jane Addams continues to be a role model to girls and women of all ages.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 23, 2015
    ISBN9781627796903
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    The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams
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    Tanya Lee Stone

    Tanya Lee Stone has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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    • 5/5
      Great story, easy to understand.
    • 4/5
      I really admire Jane Addams. For a semester in college (in-between majoring in English literature and psychology) I took classes in sociology and studied her in depth. I either learned more from this book, or more likely relearned some of what I learned back then. She was a remarkable woman.This is an excellent picture book, the picture book portion book fine as a read aloud picture book for 4 to 8 year olds, and the last portion, with photos and much more text, appropriate for independent readers (and also reading aloud) for 8 to 12 year olds. I enjoyed the illustrations. They really enhanced the text, and I love the style and use of color, and for me the photographs added even more to the account.This book gives just right amount of information in each section, and left me wanting to read more.I recommend this book particularly for 8 to 11 year olds, especially those interested in social justice, history, women’s rights, strong women, and anyone who enjoys reading about how one person/a small group of people can make a big difference.
    • 4/5
      Jane Addams (1860 – 1935) was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. She was also someone who never took the easy way out, in spite of being born into a prosperous and well-connected family. (Her father, a bank president and an Illinois State Senator, was a friend of Abraham Lincoln.)Jane received a good education and had traveled, bringing away from her experiences dreams of helping the poor. She and her friend Ellen Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago to serve as a neighborhood center for those in need. This book for children gives the highlights of her experience with Hull House.As the author writes:“People who didn’t have enough to eat or had no shoes on their feet or had just lost a job began to find their way to Hull House.”When Jane saw new problems in the neighborhood, she added on to Hull House to address them. She put in a public bath, and turned the lot next door into a playground. She started morning kindergarten and after-school clubs for kids whose parents had to work long days. She kept adding buildings to the complex; by 1907, there were thirteen buildings, including a gym, coffee house, theater, and community kitchen. Residents of Hull House conducted research on conditions plaguing the lives of the poor, ranging from problems with housing, disease, garbage collection, to drugs.Stone reports that by the early 1920’s:“. . . more than nine thousand people a week visited Hull House. . . . It changed a bad neighborhood into a great and strong community. Hull House transformed the lies of all who stepped inside.”Today, as Stone observes, every community center in America owes something to Jane Addams.The ink and watercolor illustrations by Kathryn Brown feature muted tones that suggest a period in the past, and show plenty of images of the diverse groups of children helped by Hull House.An Author’s Note at the end of the book has some additional information about Jane Addam’s life, including the fact that she was called “the most dangerous woman in the America” by the FBI, and about her work for women’s suffrage, civil rights, and pacifism. The back section also includes photos and a list of sources.Discussion: This is a book about one woman who really did make a difference in the world around her. Often, stories about exceptional Americans have a subtle agenda, i.e., to make the point that what you make of yourself is entirely up to you and your failures are your own. This removal from a socioeconomic context allows the perpetuation of the American story that anyone can make it to the top in our society. But in fact, money, education, connections, neighborhood resources, and of course race, not to mention physical and psychological attributes, play a large role. Nevertheless, this does not mean it isn’t worthwhile to examine the lives of those who used the assets they had to change the world. Certainly it would have been easy enough for Jane Addams to live a life of comfort and leisure. Instead, she chose to change the world.Evaluation: Jane Addams was an incredible woman who knew neither fear nor discouragement. Her inspirational story is one about which school children should be aware. It is recommended for readers ages six and older.
    • 4/5
      Jane was born into a wealthy family, but always felt like her life served a bigger purpose. She used her privilege's to help others that were less privileged, She is the founder of Hull House in Chicago which creates shelter for the less fortunate, This was a very insightful book to read and definitely a feel good story.