Dr. Jo is a picture book biography about someone I'd never heard of before - Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, one of America's earliest female physicians and a pioneer in public health, especially in urban immigrant communities in the early 1900s. This book is similar to those in author Monica Kulling's Great Ideas series, which are picture book biographies of lessor-known inventors, such as Lillian Gilbreth and Frank Zamboni. Most of those are written at about a fourth-grade reading level, and my guess is that this book falls there as well. The watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations by Julianna Swaney are pretty; maybe too pretty when picturing gritty immigrant tenements.
© Amanda Pape - 2018
[I received this hardbound book from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program in exchange for an honest review. It will be added to my university's curriculum collection for the use of future teachers.]
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