missprint_'s review
3.0
Great use of color with lots of monochrome for groups and to highlight Dorothy. I don’t love the messaging that being active and “in service” was the only way to contribute to the war effort. Also everyone is white. I don’t know if the WASP was segregated (likely) but there were other opportunities. Even naming a prominent Black woman “doing her part” when they highlighted Rosie the Riveter and combat nurse Kate Nolan could have helped.
Okay. Author’s note does mention that the organization had no Black women accepted (guess why?) and five women of color made it in. Which makes me wonder why this book isn’t about one of them—Frances Dias, Maggie Gee, Ola Mildred Rexroat, Verneda Rodriguez, Hazel Ying Lee—and makes me wish even more ONE of them had been shown at least in passing.
Had a few issues with the text in this one:
I am not sure about “They transported planes over amber waves of grain and above purple mounted majesties”
“The spirit of independence that her mother fostered in Dorothy allowed her to believe that her call to service was different than nursing, teaching, boarding a navy ship as a clerk, or riveting. Dorothy’s place was in the sky.”
This is a bad take. And shouldn’t it be Navy ship?"
Okay. Author’s note does mention that the organization had no Black women accepted (guess why?) and five women of color made it in. Which makes me wonder why this book isn’t about one of them—Frances Dias, Maggie Gee, Ola Mildred Rexroat, Verneda Rodriguez, Hazel Ying Lee—and makes me wish even more ONE of them had been shown at least in passing.
Had a few issues with the text in this one:
I am not sure about “They transported planes over amber waves of grain and above purple mounted majesties”
“The spirit of independence that her mother fostered in Dorothy allowed her to believe that her call to service was different than nursing, teaching, boarding a navy ship as a clerk, or riveting. Dorothy’s place was in the sky.”
This is a bad take. And shouldn’t it be Navy ship?"
jesstele's review
2.0
This book starts off in such a confusing way. Not sure how a child is meant to grasp anything that’s happening until at least the middle. Illustrations are unattractive as well.
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