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Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride, by Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian Selznick ill.  New York: Scholastics, 1999. 

Summary: This book is based on the true story of Amelia Earhart's visit to Eleanor Roosevelt, and the plane ride they took together.

Rating: 5Q, 4P

ISBN: 059096075X

Medium: Pencil

Curricular Connections: Great for History, English curriculum

Age Group: 5^th – 7^th Grades

Literary Device: Metaphor: "At higher elevations the clouds below shine white with dark islands where the night sea shows through."

 

E.K. 7/29/09

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Ryan, P.M. (1999). Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride: Based on a true story, Selznick. B. (Ill). New York: Scholastic Press

 

ISBN: 978-0590960755

This story recalls the friendship and one plane flight between, Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt. A fictionalized account of a "true" plane ride; the author successfully balances fact and fiction.

Media: Graphite Pencil and Colored Pencil

 

Ages: Grades 5-7

 

Subjects: Friendship, Aviation, First Ladies, Female Pioneers

 

Rating 4Q/4P

 

km 6/21/09

 

Munoz-Ryan, P. (1999). Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride: Based on a true story. Selznick. B. Ills. New York: Scholastic Press. ISBN: 0-590-96075-X

 

 

 

Annotation – Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt really did go together for a plane ride in 1933. Perhaps they even decided to race through Washington, D.C. in Eleanor’s roadster afterwards.

 

 

 

Media – Graphite pencil and colored pencil. The display type was hand lettered by Paul Colin with a Brian Selznick design.

 

 

 

Rating – 4 quality of text and 5 quality of illustration – 3 popularity

 

 

 

Curricular Connection – The melding of the text with the immaculate illustrations makes this book a must use in the classroom history unit. Studying the American Depression can be quite challenging and this book would certainly help weary students understand that people still had aspirations and hope during those difficult years.

 

 

 

 

Nancy