Soar, Elinor!
Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety "flying machine," and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928; but not everyone thought that girls should fly. When male pilots and newspapermen mocked her, Elinor decided to perform an aerial maneuver they thought was impossible: flying under all four bridges that span New York City's East River. Gorgeous sweeping illustrations by Francois Roca show how Elinor pulled off this risky feat skillfully and with style.
"Inspiration soars from every page of this introduction to Elinor Smith, a Long Islander who took her first flight in 1917 at age six, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted 'Best Woman Pilot in America' over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and at 89, to 'fly' NASA’s space shuttle simulator." — John Peters, Booklist
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"Everyone has heard of Amelia Earhart, but she was not the only young woman fascinated by flight in the early 1900s. Elinor Smith began talking flying lessons in 1921 when she was only 10 years old. At 16, she was the youngest person in the U.S., man or woman, to earn a pilot's license. The climax of this picture-book biography is when Smith achieved acclaim as the first person to fly a plane under all four of New York City's bridges. Unlike the stories of Amelia Earhart and Harriet Quimby, this book has a happy ending. Smith lived to a ripe old age, and, according to an endnote, much of the book is based on interviews the author had with her before she passed away in March 2010." -- School Library Journal
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 4 - 8 |
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| Author | Tami Lewis Brown |
| Illustrator | Francois Roca |
| ISBN | 0374371156 |
| Publication Date | Oct 12, 2010 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Language | English |
