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32 pp.
| Holiday
| September, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-1996-8$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Catherine Stock.
In this enthusiastic biography, Whitaker celebrates the life of the audacious Harriet Quimby, the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot's license. Stock's lively watercolor and pencil illustrations display the spirit of Quimby and her era. Some facts about this groundbreaking figure are left for the author's note (e.g., she was also one of the first female scriptwriters). Timeline, websites. Bib.
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
C. F. Payne.
The fictionalized account of Harriet Quimby's flight across the English Channel in 1912 is both intriguing and exciting. Payne's illustrations of the first American woman to earn a pilot's license are at their best when showing how small and fragile Quimby's plane was compared to the vast sky and ocean, but the first-person account would be considerably strengthened by source notes or a bibliography.