Description:
Travel back to 1916 with Ruth Bancroft Law to learn more about the early days of aviation in America.
Brief description: Billie Holladay Skelley, a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net nominee, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now retired from working as a cardiovascular and thoracic surgery clinical nurse specialist and nursing educator, she enjoys focusing on her writing. Billie has written several health-related articles for both professional and lay journals, but her writing crosses several different genres and has appeared in various journals, magazines, and anthologies in print and online--ranging from the American Journal of Nursing to Chicken Soup for the Soul. An award-winning author, she has written eleven books for children and teens. Her book, Ruth Law: The Queen of the Air, was selected to receive the 2021 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Children's Literature Award.
Review Quotes:
"Ms. Skelley's book will be enjoyed by both children and adults as it relates the truly remarkable adventures of Ruth Law, pioneer aviatrix who opened many doors for women. The book relates Law's adventures as told by reporters interviewing Ms. Law and others who witnessed her aviation feats. The book includes fun facts, vocabulary words, maps, and simple, clear illustrations of early aviator's flying attire, and other aviation scenes."