{"id":38630,"date":"2022-03-06T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T03:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38630"},"modified":"2022-03-06T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T03:29:49","slug":"review-of-fly-girl-fly-by-nancy-roe-pimm-illustrated-by-alexandra-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38630","title":{"rendered":"Review of Fly, Girl, Fly! by Nancy Roe Pimm, illustrated by Alexandra Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fly_girl_fly_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fly_girl_fly_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39588\" \/><\/a><em>Fly, Girl, Fly!<\/p>\n<p>Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Nancy Roe Pimm<br \/>\nillustrated by Alexandra Bye<\/p>\n<p>Beaming Books, Minneapolis, 2020.  44 pages.<br \/>\nReview written November 14, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>This picture book biography tells the story of Shaesta Waiz, who was born in Afghanistan and came to America as a refugee with her family when she was a little girl.  As a child, she had a lot of fears, including a fear of riding in an airplane.  But after overcoming that fear on a trip to see her cousin in Florida, Shaesta decided to become a pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Shaesta went on to fly solo around the world.  But she made her trip distinctive by making many stops along the way to speak to girls about all that they can grow up to accomplish, including a stop in her native Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shaesta decided she would not just fly all the way around the world.  She\u2019d also meet with young people everywhere.  She\u2019d get them excited about careers in science, technology, engineering, and math to chase down dreams of their own!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shaesta ended up being the first woman from Afghanistan and the youngest woman in history to fly a single-engine aircraft around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fascinating and inspiring story about someone I wouldn\u2019t have heard of otherwise.  It\u2019s great to read about a refugee girl who followed her dreams and did something big.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beamingbooks.com\/\">beamingbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1506464688\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This review is only on the blog.<\/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 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>Fly, Girl, Fly! Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World by Nancy Roe Pimm illustrated by Alexandra Bye Beaming Books, Minneapolis, 2020. 44 pages. Review written November 14, 2020, from a library book This picture book biography tells the story of Shaesta Waiz, who was born in Afghanistan and came to America as a refugee with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38630","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=38630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40899,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38630\/revisions\/40899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}