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Review: Counting on Katherine

March 31, 2018 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

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Take a moment to be female and black, growing up as smart as a whip, and having no place to go to school.  Imagine that your dad finds a way, and through it a spaceship was saved.  Understand well why people would be “Counting on Katherine“.  Learn the story of how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13. 

Counting on Katherine: how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13, my review

Don’t you just loved when an illustrator of picture books captures a story really well?   When I opened the pages of Counting on Katherine and saw all the white space surrounding full colour, simply drawn pictures I was drawn into the story of Katherine Johnson, watching her through her formative years and seeing her turn into a well respected lady. Counting on Katherine: how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13, sample page

 

Katherine was a mathematically minded girl who was as smart as a whip. Her papa had a problem, how could he get her the education that she needed.   Katherine had a problem, what would she do with the education she received?

The simple drawings with plenty of white space helped bring life to the story.

Counting on Katherine: how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13, a sampling of pages

We saw how women helped to shape the space program, working in the background on the computers, formulating numbers. It was very good to see by hard work, determination and accuracy,  Katherine established a reputation as being reliable and dependable.

Counting on Katherine: how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13

My thoughts:

Math and dreams filled with pages of this delightful book.  I so enjoy a good tale and watching good stories of real life people succeed in their ventures of life.  It’s good to be inspired by people who follow through on their dreams and to see the help they got along the way. 

Counting on Katherine book cover
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13 
Helaine Becker
Dow Phumiruk
Christy Ottaviano Books
40 pages, ages 5-9 
Biography, elementary
Reviewed for Raincoast Books. 
Where to find: Amazon Link.

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