Mae Jemison: The First African American Woman Astronaut (Making Their Mark: Women in Science and Medicine) [Hardcover]

Liza Burby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2001 | Age Level: 6 and up | Series: Making Their Mark: Women in Science and Medicine

Briefly traces the life of the first African-American woman to go into space, from her childhood in Chicago through her education and work as a doctor to her historic flight.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 1-3--A short, clearly written biography for beginning readers. While the text is well organized, the choice of illustrations may confuse readers. For example, one photograph shows a young girl with a man, presumably her father, captioned, "Mae liked to spend time with her father when she was a little girl, just like this girl does." In another, the astronaut isn't identified. Some of the photographs seem interchangeable with any book on space exploration. Difficult words in the text are in bold type with the pronunciation in parenthesis, and defined in the glossary. Although the text is informative, the photos selected do little to enhance it.

Allison Trent Bernstein, Blake Middle School, Medfield, MA

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: PowerKids Press (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823950271
• ISBN-13: 978-0823950270
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,215,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Liza N. Burby is the author of How to Publish Your Children's Book (Square One Publishers), 38 nonfiction children's books, and a YA novel due out next year. She is also an award-winning freelance journalist who has been writing features for Newsday for 11 years and is the editor of the top-rated parenting magazine Newsday's Parents & Children. Her articles have also appeared in national publications like Better Homes & Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Child and Writer's Digest and newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun. Liza is also an adjunct professor in the journalism program at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY. Dividing her time between fiction and nonfiction pursuits allows her the ability to strengthen her writing in both genres, while always having something new to write about.