Amelia Earhart
Young Air Pioneer

An excellent background on flying pioneer Amelia Earhart. The book does not go in depth of her flying career except to reveal her first flight alone but gives the reader a sense of who she was growing up and how Amelia became interested in flying. For more details of Amelia's flying career, a documen......more

I *tried* to ILL this one, too, but the home library wouldn't lend it to me, woe. This was my other favorite in the series. For decades, I've had in mind the image of Amelia making a roller coaster in her farmyard as a child, and seeing Peter's post has made me convinced that this was the book I rea......more

Another Childhood of Famous Americans biography from 1950. My copy is a special edition published by Spencer Press, Chicago with permission by Bobbs-Merrill. It is one of a series featuring childhoods of famous FEMALE Americans and has color paintings of other famous women inside the front and back......more

All of the things a kid can do to have fun! She did it!......more