Amelia Earhart: Little People, Big Dreams: 3

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how many people knew that not long before she disappeared she taught at Perdu University in Michigan on aviation? Living around Los Angeles, and being involved in aviation, even as a beginner, at that time allowed her to become acquainted with some of the early fliers and businessmen who would become well known in the future aviation industry. Earhart's disappearance remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, and it often overshadows her true legacies as a courageous and dedicated aviator and as an enduring inspiration to women. This book does a good job of painting a three-dimensional portrait of her individuality, rather than another stereotypical description of the myth that evolved following her disappearance.

Aunque el formato esta pensado para los niños menores de 5 años, el libro sigue gustando también a los niños más mayores! In her day, Amelia was well know for her work in social welfare and her advocacy for women's rights. Amelia's father was an alcoholic and her parents eventually divorced, leaving her mother to financially struggle with two young daughters to care for.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. Her disappearance has given birth to numerous theories and has been a topic of fascination for decades. She came to live several years with her grandparents and she shared several personality traits with her maternal great grandmother. and explores the real personality of Earhart, the woman of three centuries; born in the 19 th Century, became a pioneer in the 20 th Century, but lived the ideals and dreams of the 21 st Century.

In fact, there are points in the book where the text reads like a list of facts that are strung together without anything connecting them. The word went out in the Boston area that a well-educated woman, preferably with flying knowledge, was needed to fly on the trip as a passenger, and Amelia ended up on the short list of candidates.The dramatic 1928 flight brought her international attention and the opportunity to earn a living in aviation. 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. A new scientific study suggests that the bones found in 1940 on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro actually belong to Amelia Earhart.

Although the appeal of Amelia's story clearly hasn't wained for the public, Butler's biography paints a picture both of why it has not, and also why it should not. This is unsettling as a reader because it makes the prose repetitive, and you wonder if the author thought you might not be paying attention, or if the author herself wasn't paying attention when she was writing. For example, not many people in the world today, realize that she was a social worker before she became a well-known aviator, or that social work was once a highly esteemed profession in the early part of the 20th Century.This book contains diary entries, letters, charts, and dispatches that she sent to her husband at each stage of her trip.