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shayemiller's review
5.0
So glad to get to listen to this one via Literally Cultured Read Aloud! Look forward to getting a print copy. Review to come...
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For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!
bookishrealm's review
4.0
Whewwwww! Ya'll this one was definitely a good one for black history month. I honestly didn't know anything about Patricia until I read this book and I'm so glad that I did. She was such an AMAZING individual and I learned so much about her fight to become an ophthalmologist. She NEVER let anyone deter her from following her dreams. It was so inspiring to read her story especially when I learned how much she did for communities. The artwork was also amazing.
bethmitcham's review
4.0
This biography of Patricia Bath covers her childhood (focussed on science and education) and career as a eye doctor, where she opened new possibilities for people and communities. She connected her Harlem neighborhood clinic with the eye surgeons of Columbia medical school. She refused to accept second tier status when she became the first woman on the Jules Stein Eye Institute faculty -- rejecting the basement closet they proposed as her first office. She invented the laser tool that clears out cataracts, which is how the author first learned about her. All this was stuff I had never heard.
The pictures are simple but deeply rich and saturated. I think they are done on computer? It's a realistic style with backgrounds chosen to focus attention. And I like how quotes from Bath are woven into the text, showing Bath's dedication to her patients and resistance to prejudice, whether aimed at women or Blacks.
The backmatter has a timeline of Bath's life, including her death in 2019, a note from the author about discovering Dr Patricia Bath, her interviews with her, and other resources. It also has a dense page of more information, including her meeting with Dr Martin Luther King Jr. There's a works cited section and more reading "About Other Women in Stem" but they are hard for me to see because the library cover keeps most of the last page obscured.
The pictures are simple but deeply rich and saturated. I think they are done on computer? It's a realistic style with backgrounds chosen to focus attention. And I like how quotes from Bath are woven into the text, showing Bath's dedication to her patients and resistance to prejudice, whether aimed at women or Blacks.
The backmatter has a timeline of Bath's life, including her death in 2019, a note from the author about discovering Dr Patricia Bath, her interviews with her, and other resources. It also has a dense page of more information, including her meeting with Dr Martin Luther King Jr. There's a works cited section and more reading "About Other Women in Stem" but they are hard for me to see because the library cover keeps most of the last page obscured.
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