Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero SS_Gift_Guide Turning her writer's eye on

Turning her writer's eye on her own experiences

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author-illustrator of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich

Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero SS_Gift_Guide Turning her writer's eye on2014 Amelia Bloomer listThe Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street CollegeThe story of Mary Edwards Walker, the doctor and women's rights activist who served in the Civil War and receive the Medal of Honor. Mary Edwards Walker was unconventional for her time: She was one of the first women doctors in the country, she was a suffragist, and she wore pants! And when the Civil War struck, she took to the battlefields in a modified Union