Title: Amelia Earhart, The Legend of the Lost Aviator
Author: Shelley Tanaka
Illustrator: David Craig
Genre: Informative
Subgenre: Biography
Themes: Following dreams, Flying, Courage
Primary Characters: Amelia Earhart
Awards: Orbis Pictus Winner, 2009
Date of publication: 2008
Publishing Company: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Summary: This story begins with Earhart when she is eleven years
old and a plane is pointed out to her at an Iowa
fair. She is unimpressed then, but as
a college student who volunteered as a nurse’s aide during the First World
War, she saw planes and caught the flying bug. By the 1920s, Earhart was
airborne and found fame in the air—as the first woman passenger on a transatlantic
flight, then setting her own flying records.
In the classroom: I would use this book as a way
to introduce the biographies we would be writing in class. I think biographies
are looked upon as something that students dread. However, this book is not
only informative; it has beautiful images that go along with the text that make
the book really come to life. I think that is the key to biographies. Students
need to realize the life style of people like Amelia Earhart and not just think
of them as someone from the past who they know nothing about.
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