The narrative of this book succinctly captures the beginning of Elinor Smith adventurous life of flying. I loved the colorful descriptive language used throughout, so that I felt like I wasn’t reading a biography, but enjoying a story about a girl who wanted to fly. This book drew me in with the illustrations and kept me interested with the story-like telling of a dream achieved. I read many biographies in the search for one that told me a story and kept me captivated throughout. Many biographies take great and amazing achievements and dwindle them down to a list of events. I don’t enjoy reading biographies because most of them read like a list of events in someone’s life.
This book could be paired with other books about pilots, women and men alike, to point out similarities and differences between the texts.īiography is one of my least favorite genres. It would be an excellent choice when teaching the biography genre, as a way a biography can be presented in a story sort of fashion, but still hold true to the genre. It is great for a lesson on perseverance or growth mindset, due to Elinor’s achievements in the face of adversity. This biography is a picture book with beautiful illustrations that is appropriate to be read aloud in any grade level. This book encourages young women to fight and grapple for their goals, especially when people tell them they cannot or should not. This biography is yet another example of an amazing woman who achieved a feat when the odds were against her simply because she was a woman. When a jealous pilot challenged her abilities, Elinor faced the challenge and exceeded it despite all odds. The book continues to tell about her first time flying a plane and her perseverance in the face of the men who told her a woman couldn’t fly. Elinor was lucky enough to have parents who knew what it was like to have big dreams and helped her toward her very big dream. This book begins by telling the story of how a young girl, Elinor Smith, sparked her dream of becoming a pilot on the day that she took a ride in a rickety biplane in a potato field.
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