DK Publishing: Amelia Earhart (DK Biography) Read Free Books and Download eBooks
With more than 100 full-color photographs and illustrations and detailed sidebars, this entry in DK's acclaimed Biography series celebrate a pioneer who changed how the world is viewed: aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Lexile Measure: 1000L (What's this?)
Series: DK Biography
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: DK Children (January 29, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756625521
ISBN-13: 978-0756625528
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #179,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #94 in Books > Children's Books > Cars, Trains & Things That Go > Planes & Aviation #159 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Science & Technology #163 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Women
Age Range: 10 - 17 years
Grade Level: 5 - 12
While this book is intended for young readers (words such as "armistice" are defined in boxes set in the text), the text is thorough and nuanced enough to engage an adult reader. The book's subject is well-suited to a pictorial biography, and the well-chosen images are sharp and clear. A Lindy look-alike, Amelia Earhart's wonderful public image combined modest gentility, feminist self-confidence and competence, and a model's poise and grace. Happily, the image seems to have been thoroughly genuine, though the book makes it clear that there were better aviators.
My 2nd grader was doing a project on her and this is one of the BEST resources we used. She could read and understand most all of it herself. I was so impressed by DK Publishing and their book, I will always buy their book on all other figures we have projects on.Great looking book as well. Glossy pages/photos, key info in special boxes. Perfect! A+++
After watching Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, I wanted to learn more about Amelia Earhart.I loved this book- which is an example of a cross over children/YA title. It's a photobiography of DK, which slightly copies the Eyewitness style on a grader scale. Tons of pictures fill the book along with Earhart's life: including her struggles, her difficult life with her parents, and her passion for flying. The book ends with an in depth look at her last flight and possible scenarios for her tragic end.Amelia Earhart was a social worker, a nurse, a fashion designer, and a feminist. Her life story amazed me.
This book is phenomenal. Sometimes less is more, and this book doesn't have over 400 pages but a quarter of that and still crafts Ms. Earhart's biography with articulate precision. The book has a great catalog of pictures that you can't just find on the internet either. The early years of her life are brief but highly effective. Nothing in the book is stretched out for too long but you get a perfect amount of information that keeping the reader on his toes the entire time.
My godchild is an avid reader and at 8 years old, she's developed an interest in nonfiction books. I purchased the books on Amelia Earhart because I new she would be intrigued. The book is exactly what I was hoping for and I'm sure she'll enjoy it.
This documentary gives less about the time Amelia spent in Iowa. It is interesting that she was a nurse, fashion designer, contributor to Cosmopolitan magazine, the New York Herald (title as I recall it) newspaper, aviator, and probably several other activities which I do not recall.
I try to buy a couple of book a month for the local library. I use different themes for the 8 year old, but she liked biographies and loved this book. Next month I am buying science oriented books, never enough of those in the local library. I put the book on hold at the library so when it comes in I get first read and the library gets a great source of new books.
Very good book. Well researched and does appear to be a reliable account though references are missing form certain points that I would have thought were a definite reference point. It dispelled some of the myths I have grown up with which is a great thing.
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