{"id":14088,"date":"2019-07-10T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverdolphin.wpengine.com\/?p=14088&preview=true&preview_id=14088"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:12:47","slug":"10-things-you-didnt-know-about-amelia-earhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdolphinbooks.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-amelia-earhart\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Didn’t Know About Amelia Earhart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s healthy for kids to have role models from around the world and throughout history. Here\u2019s someone to look up to: aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Or, if you rather, <\/span>Amelia Harehart<\/em><\/a>. Silver Dolphin\u2019s new series <\/span>Wild Bios<\/em><\/a> are board books for pre-readers that re-imagine important people as cute and cuddly creatures. Our sister imprint, Portable Press<\/a>, also has a new series called Show Me History!<\/a><\/em> that introduces\u00a0youngsters to historical figures in a fun graphic novel format! Here are some facts about one of the subjects of these series, Amelia Earhart.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Plain Plane<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Amelia Earhart wasn\u2019t exactly a precocious pilot or a born lover of planes. As she wrote in a diary entry, the first time she saw a plane was as an 11-year-old attending the Iowa State Fair in 1908, which had a flying contraption on display. She called it \u201ca thing of rusty wire and wood\u201d and obviously didn\u2019t care too much about it.<\/p>\n

Help is On the Way<\/strong><\/h5>\n

During a holiday break from college in 1917, she went to visit her sister, Muriel, studying in Toronto. That\u2019s where Earhart first noticed the mass loss of life and injuries suffered by World War I soldiers, and so she dropped out of school and became a nurse\u2019s aide at a Red Cross military hospital in Toronto. (She had to take a two-month break when she contracted sinusitis and severe pneumonia.)<\/p>\n

Air Canada<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In Toronto, Earhart and the other nurses spent their free time hanging around airplane hangars (because that\u2019s where young male pilots tended to congregate). That\u2019s when she first took an interest in planes, which truly sparked when she attended a Long Beach, California, air show in 1920 with her father. A pilot named Frank Hawks took Earhart on a 10-minute flight, and she was hooked.<\/p>\n

Seeking Snook<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Earhart worked odd jobs and saved up $1,000 for flying lessons, and her teacher was another early female aviator named Neta Snook, the first woman to run an airfield and her own aviation company.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Bird, It\u2019s a Plane<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Just six months after her first flying lesson in 1921, Earhart was able to buy her first airplane, a tiny yellow biplane she named The Canary.<\/em><\/p>\n

Flying Into History<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Earhart set a number of aviation records in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1928, she became the first woman to fly in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean (as a passenger), and in 1932 flew a plane, solo, across the same body of water. Then in 1935, she really outdid herself. She flew from Los Angeles to Mexico City, Mexico to New Jersey, and Honolulu to Oakland, all solo \u2014 the first person of any gender to do any of those things.<\/p>\n

State Dinner in the Sky<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In April 1933, shortly after President Franklin Roosevelt took office, a number of aviation industry luminaries were invited to the White House for dinner. Among the guests: Earhart and her husband, George Putnam. The president didn\u2019t attend, and it must have been a stuffy affair, because during the dinner, Earhart suggested to her close friend, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, that they should take a joyride\u2026by which she meant fly a plane from Washington, D.C.\u2019s Hoover Field to an airport in Baltimore. And so Earhart, Roosevelt, and some of the other guests did, still in their evening finery, as Earhart took the controls of the small plane.<\/p>\n

Clothing the Deal<\/strong><\/h5>\n

By the early 1930s, Earhart was extremely famous, and, like a modern-day Kardashian or Victoria Beckham, she had her own department store clothing line. Amelia Earhart Fashions were available only at Macy\u2019s and Marshall Field\u2019s and were priced so that middle-class women could afford them. Most garments had little aviation-based details, like airplane prints or propeller-shaped buttons.<\/p>\n

Where\u2019d She Go?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

She\u2019s almost as famous for her disappearance as she is for her achievements. During a 1937 attempt to fly around the world with navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart and her plane disappeared and were never recovered. Numerous theories have been spread about what happened, such as the plane running out of gas and crashing into the sea, and capture and execution by Japan. A $4 million air and sea hunt (the most expensive in history to that point, funded by the U.S. government) didn\u2019t turn up much.<\/p>\n

Nope, Not Her<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In 1970, writer Joe Klaas wrote a book called Amelia Earhart Lives, <\/em>claiming that Earhart had faked her death, moved to New York, and assumed the name Irene Bolam. That woman, who had a well-documented life, sued the book\u2019s publisher and demanded the book pulled from stores. (She reached a settlement and the book was withdrawn.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Wild Bios: Amelia Harehart<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Meet one of history\u2019s greatest figures in this adorable board book with an animalistic twist! Dive into the life of the brave pilot Amelia Harehart, and the glass ceilings she flew through. Breaking records and always setting new goals to achieve, Amelia Harehart was an inspiration. With hilarious puns and colorful illustrations, this clever board book brings her legacy to life for babies and parents alike!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Sky!<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

When Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, she immediately became an American icon and a subject of endless fascination for generations to come. In\u00a0<\/span>Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Sky!<\/i><\/a>, the story of the bold and daring aviator\u2019s life is presented in graphic novel format, with full-color illustrations and historically accurate details. From her hardscrabble childhood to her final flight\u2014and mysterious disappearance\u2014Earhart\u2019s journey will entertain, captivate, and inspire readers of all ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Amelia Earhart photo credit:\u00a0<\/span>Everett Historical\/Shutterstock.com
\nAmelia Earhart (1897-1937), waving, seated outside cockpit on top of an Autogiro, in Los Angeles, shortly after she became the first woman to complete a solo coast-to-coast flight. August 1932.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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