Nurses cleaning, scrubbing, comforting and assisting are directed by Nightingale, always pictured in a midnight-blue dress or cloak. She makes beautiful decorative patterns out of difficult and sometimes horrific situations. Demi’s pictures feature her exquisite line and magnificent use of color, manipulating the flat, decorative space she uses to advance the story. The text is direct and clear, conveying complex information fluidly. She went to Turkey to assist injured soldiers from the Crimean War, working to ensure sanitary conditions and to make healthful food and medicines available. As her family traveled from England to Italy, France and Germany, she visited hospitals and poorhouses to teach herself and to compare healing strategies.
Demi wields her gifts to celebrate Florence Nightingale, who transformed the care of the sick and injured.įlorence Nightingale was born to wealthy English parents in Florence, Italy, and from an early age studied nursing and the care of the sick.
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