Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | 
“But Katherine knew she was as good at math as anyone else – maybe better.”
“But Katherine knew she was as good at math as anyone else – maybe better.”
This story would be good for upper elementary grades and feature diverse perspectives to help relate to all students as well as educate students on these important women.
pickHidden Figures (2018) by Margot Lee Shetterly and Winifred Conkling is a biography picture book about four black women who worked at NASA during the space race. They did jobs that were often overlooked but made major contributions to America and NASA during the space race. This story details their lives during their time at NASA and their contributions.
pickHidden Figures was written by Margot Lee Shetterly. I absolutely love this story and movie! I feel that this would be a good book to read when discussing equality for women with children.
Is the kind of America I know worth defending?
Something that could be done with this story is reading through it and then watching the movie adaptation with the class. Also, I enjoyed the more detailed biographies at the conclusion of the story.
pickThis story discusses the biographies of four African American women and how they contributed to many of NASA's accomplishments. The four women discussed are Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden. This story not only tackles issues of civil rights, but also tackles issues of sexism as these four women were important to NASA and the space race.
pickThis book had a lot of amazing information it in that even as an adult I didn‘t know. I have never seen the movie Hidden Figures or read the book. I have the book and I think I need to bump it up my TBR list so I can learn more information about these very important ladies!
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Hidden Figures is a Coretta Scott King award winning NF written by Margot Lee Shetterly (w/ W. Conkling) and illustrated by Laura Freeman. It is the illustrated story of four Black women who had major roles in America‘s space race. The authors did a great job of adapting this long, complicated story into one comprehensible to elementary students.
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pickThis is a great book to use as a biography because it talks about the history of the USA and the space race, it can help students understand what it was like with race seperation and how it worked at NASA during this time.
I think this would be a great addition to any classroom because it explains the stories of four important women who helped NASA during the “space race“.
“They could not marry of a different race.“
“With hard work, perseverance, and a love of math, anything was possible.“
Beautiful, empowering women.
pickPublished in 2018, the children's nonfiction book tells the story of the 4 black women behind the face of NASA during space race against Russia. The book is a little denser in content, so it would lean more toward the older elementary age group's understanding. It discusses important topics of oppression and discrimination. Really great to promote the idea of women in the field of math and science- and shows that girls can do it too.
