It’s a fictionalized picture book biography about a woman who woman who got civically involved in New York City in the 1940s and 50s to protest city planners who were not taking the needs of the local community people into their plans. One of the weaknesses of the book, if the target audience is young children (the typical audience for picture books), is that it depends too much on clues in the illustrations to convey some of the context, clues that young children are unlikely to pick up on. Never during the text of the story does the author ever indicate the time period in which the story is taking place. I was able to get a general sense from the clothes people were wearing in the illustrations, but kids wouldn’t necessarily recognize those clues.