Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone

A must for library shelves.” - Booklist, starred review on Elizabeth Leads the Way The cameos of action, matched by full-page pictures, make the history accessible. “ smart and lively biography of Elizabeth Blackwell.” - Publishers Weekly “A bracing, vivacious account of a pioneering woman.” - Kirkus “ Staccato text, short and snappy, easy to read yet full of information about both Blackwell and her times.” - Booklist, starred review “Stone presents the highly readable and detailed story of a girl who is sure to inspire aspiring young doctors.” - School Library Journal “Here's a refreshing introduction to a regularly but often dryly cited female 'first'.” - The Horn Book Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone is an NPR Best Book of 2013.

This inspiring story of the first female doctor shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come. Although she faced much opposition, she worked hard and finally-when she graduated from medical school and went on to have a brilliant career-proved her detractors wrong. Certainly no women were doctors.īut Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women weren't smart enough to be doctors, or that they were too weak for such hard work. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few.

In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. A nonfiction picture book telling the inspiring story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor, by the author of Elizabeth Leads the Way.