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inspiring!

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My 2.0 y.r. daughter really enjoyed this book. True story based on Amelia Erhart and Eleanor Roosevelt - inspiring! Also, Eleanor Roosevelt is drawn accurately- i.e: not fabulously gorgeous- showing that beauty is not important in achieving success and happiness

Wonderful Book

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This Caldecott award winner is a treasure. It is a beautifully illustrated book. The illustrator did extensive research. The artwork is exquisite and correct (right down to the China pattern at the White House at the time). Earhart and Roosevelt are true heros and role models. Lots of great inferencing in the book. One of my favorite lines is that at the dinner Eleanor's brother would be her escort for the evening as her husband was busy...the line says "But Eleanor was used to that". I have asked my students,"What kind of a marriage do you think the Roosevelts had?" after reading that line. Getting the book is worth it just to hear the answers if you work with adolescents!! Students are fascinated by this book. It is a great discussion of the rarity of airplanes at the time and the roles of women. It is a story of friendship, of risks, of fun!! Books Are for Talking, Too! has lessons plans for the book.

Learn history the fun way

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What a great way to learn about two historical icons! This is a wonderful book written about two great American women. Both Amelia and Eleanor are fabulous role models all on their own, but team them up and the inspiration they dole out is double the fun! Read this to your daughters, read this to your sons. Whatever you do, just read it.

A MUST HAVE FOR ANY LIBRARY

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This is one of the most charming stories I have ever owned. It is even better because it is based in reality with the contrast of dream like illustrations. It has the wonderful qualities of one of those sweet and magical black and white movies. My five year old wants me to read it to her again and again. Between this book and select I Love Lucy episodes I am showing her, she is realizing that black and white media can be relevant to her. It doesn't have to be color and have a special effect to be great. A wonderful book that adults will fall in love with as much as children.

Great Gift for Little Girls

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As the parent of a curious 5-year-old, I've been disappointed by the scarcity of historical and biographical books aimed at very young children. My daughter had an interest in Amelia Earhart since she first saw her "red plane" at the Smithsonian, so I took a gamble and bought this book for her at Christmas time...and she loved it. In fact, she liked it so much that she's insisted on giving it to several of her girl friends as gifts. It was a big hit with them as well. In fact a couple of their mothers have asked me where I got it (Amazon, of course), and whether the author has written any other children's books.

The story is simple, fun, historical, and symbolically significant (without being didactic or political). The black and white illustrations are interesting to look at, and very detailed (even the pattern on the White House china in the background is historically accurate).

With their colorful personalities, and the strength to defy cultural expectations, Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt make great role models for little girls -- and it doesn't hurt for them to understand that the freedoms they will surely take for granted in their lives were won for all of us by women like these.