Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott

by Julie Cummins

Book Overview

While American women were fighting for their right to vote, Blanche Stuart Scott asserted her right to fly. She had always been a daredevil and couldn't resist the temptation of traveling at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060291389
• ISBN13: 9780060291389
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Swell Pioneer Aviation Book

Ms. Cummins has produced a very attractive small volume on Blanche Stuart Scott, pioneer aviator. The volume is well designed, as might be expected from a mainline publisher (Harper Collins) and the text is informative. While the book yields a good notion of who Ms. Stuart Scott was, a better exposition of Ms. Stuart Scott's 'crustiness' would probably have increased our understanding. There are the inevitable errors, of course, including an unfortunate caption of a photograph (on page 49) mistakenly identifying Lincoln Beachey as the aviator of a Wright biplane. Also, there is confusion about the supposed role of a non-existent sand bag in the fatal fall of Harriet Quimby and William Willard at Squantum, Massachusetts, in 1911. Taken as a whole, however, this book is well worth the purchase price and adds to our knowledge of one of the most colorful aviators of the pre-WWI period.