Build your childs reading confidence at home with books at the right level Find out all about two ground breaking figures in medicine Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garret Anderson, two women who fought to become doctors in the early 1800s. What was life like for women in the early nineteenth century, what obstacles did both women come up against and ultimately how did they succeed? Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Collins, Collins Big Cat .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-10 years.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Isabel Thomas is an experienced author of non-fiction books for children and has written many articles for national newspapers including The Guardian and The Times. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.