With a high school graduate in the house, the topic of career choice has received a fair amount of attention in recent months. The picture books draw attention to three individuals with uncommon careers, at least for their time. Allan Pinkerton established the famed detective agency, which was at the height of its power from the 1870s to the 1890s. Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland numbered among the very few female journalists in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries.
