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A review by ljrinaldi
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
4.0
When I was in elementary school, there was a section of the school library that held biographies of famous people. (921 dewey decimal system.) My favorites were the childhoods of the famous, and that was where I first came across the life story of Amelia Earhart. The thing that struck me, at the time, was that flying lessons were $100. This was back in the Depression, and I knew that, and so I wondered how much it would have cost today. It got me thinking about these sorts of things, at a young age.
The reason I bring this up, is because of this book, which is not about one, or two, but a whole group of women that flew during WWII. The author focuses on one from the US, one from the UK and one from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's group of flying women were known as the Night Witches, by the Nazis, whom they were bombing.
The pictures are amazing. The story is good too, but this being a picture book, it is the pictures that are important as well.
Each woman in uniform.
A plane crash, that the pilot survived.
Of course, once the war was over, the women were all expected to go back to the kitchen and stay there, but some did not, and so this opened the doors to the female pilots of today.
Great story to show kids of today what women went through back, now 70 years ago. (Hard to believe it was that long ago). Also good so that this peice of history is not lost.
The author said she started researching for this book when she saw a picture of Hazel Ying Lee, a Chinese-American pilot in WWII, and wondered about that, and who she was.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
The reason I bring this up, is because of this book, which is not about one, or two, but a whole group of women that flew during WWII. The author focuses on one from the US, one from the UK and one from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's group of flying women were known as the Night Witches, by the Nazis, whom they were bombing.
The pictures are amazing. The story is good too, but this being a picture book, it is the pictures that are important as well.
Each woman in uniform.
A plane crash, that the pilot survived.
Of course, once the war was over, the women were all expected to go back to the kitchen and stay there, but some did not, and so this opened the doors to the female pilots of today.
Great story to show kids of today what women went through back, now 70 years ago. (Hard to believe it was that long ago). Also good so that this peice of history is not lost.
The author said she started researching for this book when she saw a picture of Hazel Ying Lee, a Chinese-American pilot in WWII, and wondered about that, and who she was.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.