{"id":35963,"date":"2019-04-28T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2019-04-28T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:05:50","slug":"review-of-aim-for-the-skies-by-aimee-bissonette-illustrated-by-doris-ettlinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35963","title":{"rendered":"Review of Aim for the Skies, by Aim\u00e9e Bissonette, illustrated by Doris Ettlinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aim_for_the_skies_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aim_for_the_skies_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36180\" \/><\/a><em>Aim for the Skies<\/p>\n<p>Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith\u2019s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart\u2019s Quest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Aim\u00e9e Bissonette<br \/>\nillustrated by Doris Ettlinger<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping Bear Press, 2018.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 13, 2019, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>This picture book tells about two women who both decided independently to complete Amelia Earhart\u2019s around the world airplane trip.  They both set out on their journey in March 1964.  They traveled different routes, but the press reported it as a race.  Yes, one of them became the first woman to fly solo around the world.  But the other became the first person to fly the longest distance alone \u2013 using the same route as Amelia, around the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The book gives the background of each woman, what got them interested in becoming a pilot and why they took on such a grand adventure.  And then, of course, dramatizes the race around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting story of two women who accomplished amazing things \u2013 both in honor of Amelia Earhart before them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimeebissonette.com\/\">aimeebissonette.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dorisettlinger.com\/\">dorisettlinger.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1585363812\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/aim_for_the_skies.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/aim_for_the_skies.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aim for the Skies Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith\u2019s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart\u2019s Quest by Aim\u00e9e Bissonette illustrated by Doris Ettlinger Sleeping Bear Press, 2018. 32 pages. Review written February 13, 2019, from a library book This picture book tells about two women who both decided independently to complete Amelia Earhart\u2019s around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36181,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions\/36181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}