Amelia Earhart: Little People, Big Dreams: 3

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Susan Butler, of course, provides a thorough, and informative, description of the fateful 1937 around-the-world attempt. Did you know that her first transatlantic flight in 1928, the first time a woman flew across the Atlantic, she was merely a passenger? I adored the audiobook narration by Anna Fields/Kate Fleming, even if I at times had to rewind to jot down facts.

Her life took on new purpose when she went to work at the Denison House settlement house in Boston, while engaging in flying whenever finances and circumstances permitted. how many people knew that not long before she disappeared she taught at Perdu University in Michigan on aviation? There are great nuggets of the life of Amelia tucked into the dry uninteresting lists of facts that tries to pass for writing. In fact she really was “not just a pilot, but also an educator, a social worker, a lecturer, a business woman and a tireless promoter of women’s rights” as stated in the book description. While Earhart's life and personality are fascinating, the style of this book is tedious, and reading it was drudgery interspersed with a few surprising tidbits.Earhart's active feminist drive, private life, familial connection to Gore Vidal, and direct line to FDR are explored. In this great little biography, readers will find out how she tricked her father into letting her fly, how her expertise in publicity helped to pay her way and how she became a fashion icon. In other places, there are several instances where the author repeats the same descriptive phrase twice in the same paragraph. Butler introduces many characters not truly important to the story, and their similar names and nicknames are confusing. The real revelation, for me, is how involved she was in the early development of commercial aviation.

Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. Amelia's father was an alcoholic and her parents eventually divorced, leaving her mother to financially struggle with two young daughters to care for. In this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Amy Guest, a rich woman, would have loved to find a way to be the first woman to fly across the ocean, but she wasn't about to make the rash decision to risk her neck in the pursuit of this highly dangerous undertaking.

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Yet along with pursuing a higher education despite the financial constraints, she also began flying early. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Babies and toddlers will love to snuggle as you read to them the engaging story of this fascinating icon, and will also enjoy exploring the stylish and quirky illustrations of this sturdy board book on their own. A slooooooow start as the reader will be thrown head first into the history of her grandparents/land/personal details of events that take place years before her birth.Her parents had reconciled and her father moved them out to California, and Amelia Earhart discovered flying.