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A review by claudiaswisher
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman by Mary Kay Kroeger, Louise Borden
5.0
Still collecting picture-book biographies of strong women, especially in atypical professions for my NBC renewal lesson. This is a peach...Bessie Coleman walked to her one-room, segregated school. She picked cotton. She moved to Chicago...and she traveled to France to learn to fly. She followed her dreams, she stepped over countless obstacles. She sought out mentors, and she flew.
And her dream ultimately killed her...she died in a crash at the age of 32. Would she have regretted her choices? Would she have wanted to live a longer, safer, more sedate life, doing manicures in a barber shop in Chicago? Somehow I doubt it.
But the question remains -- what could she have contributed if she hadn't died so young?
And her dream ultimately killed her...she died in a crash at the age of 32. Would she have regretted her choices? Would she have wanted to live a longer, safer, more sedate life, doing manicures in a barber shop in Chicago? Somehow I doubt it.
But the question remains -- what could she have contributed if she hadn't died so young?