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Engle, Margarita

The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar

40 pp. | Atheneum | March, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-4502-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-4503-0
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sara Palacios. In this slightly fictionalized account (with brief invented dialogue), Engle and Palacios introduce readers to Latina air-and-space pioneer Aída de Acosta (1884–1962), who defied the sexist attitudes of her era to learn to pilot dirigibles. Lilting, intermittently rhyming text highlights the difficulties de Acosta faced. Mixed-media illustrations capture the giant scale of the dirigibles without sacrificing detail in scenes of people on the ground.
Reviewer: Christina L. Dobbs | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018

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