Women I Admire, part 3: Miss Hunnicutt

As I've mentioned before, we read a lot of children's literature around here, so many of the women I admire come from those kind of books. One of my favorite books is called, "Miss Hunnicutt's Hat" by Jeff Brumbeau. It's really a delightful book and has a most unusual storyline which shows the development of Miss Hunnicutt from "timid and quiet...." who "usually didn't like to make a fuss and always did what everyone wanted her to do..." to someone quite different at the end.
Here's an excerpt that tells a little about Miss Hunnicutt and what caused her transformation...
"But today, the day the Queen was to pass by, she decided to put her foot down. Well, hopefully. Miss Hunnicutt was going to do her shopping and wear her new hat from Paris, even if it was a little different..... It looked quite like the hats the other ladies of the town wore. It had blue felt and green and yellow ribbons, and great big feathers all about. What was different was that this hat had chicken feathers. And the feathers were still stuck to the chicken who was happily clucking away on Miss Hunnicutt's head."
Now, throughout the book Miss Hunnicutt meets with much opposition to her choice in millinery, and each time she holds her head up a little higher and is a little bolder in her assertion that, "I have the right to wear what I like! And I won't wear a flounder and I won't wear an orangutan! But I will wear a chicken and I will wear it on my head!" By the end of the book, Miss Hunnicutt is no longer timid and quiet, but through her calm and rational assertiveness, has won the respect of her community and even the Queen herself.