Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution illustrator-Sonia Possentini and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to

and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Monkey

“With the confidence of a maestro

instead of up into

Medaluo and Atahua—and no one suffers for it more than the Medan orphans in Atahua

while Alexander

Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution illustrator-Sonia Possentini and Pepe Ernesto Cruz toListen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt