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A review by erine
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
4.0
The best part about this book was its balanced view of Amelia Earhart. I don't remember any other book treating her as anything but a heroic and daring woman who paved the way for women to do great things. Fleming actually includes unflattering stories about Earhart, which makes her seem far more real when combined with the stories one usually hears. And I don't think that telling tales about Amelia looking for publicity makes her achievements any less; they just make her seem like a far more balanced and realistic human.
The worst part of the book was all the interruptions. The story is told as two parallel tales - her life and the search for her after her final flight. But the story of her life is broken into by panels of information on flying, current events of the day, or smaller vignettes of Amelia's story. It became hard to read because not only was the biography alternating with the search story, but these little tidbits kept popping in. Not to say that they weren't all interesting and well-written. It was mostly just a formatting thing.
I've loved the story of Amelia Earhart since I read the Lost and Never Found books ordered from a Scholastic Book Fair when I was in middle school. Her disappearance is most mysterious, and Amelia Lost has more information and great storytelling than any other book I've read on Amelia.
The worst part of the book was all the interruptions. The story is told as two parallel tales - her life and the search for her after her final flight. But the story of her life is broken into by panels of information on flying, current events of the day, or smaller vignettes of Amelia's story. It became hard to read because not only was the biography alternating with the search story, but these little tidbits kept popping in. Not to say that they weren't all interesting and well-written. It was mostly just a formatting thing.
I've loved the story of Amelia Earhart since I read the Lost and Never Found books ordered from a Scholastic Book Fair when I was in middle school. Her disappearance is most mysterious, and Amelia Lost has more information and great storytelling than any other book I've read on Amelia.