Her 35-year-old career earned her a Presidential Medal of Freedom and many more accolades. She is the difinition of a child prodigy. I was unaware that Katherine entered highschool at age ten and graduated from college by age eighteen.
In fact, her tragectory calculations were trusted above most. This lady was fundamental in the launching of rockets into space. To say Katherine was important to NACA (and then to NASA) is an understament. Katherine's story is one resilience and courage, of guts and glory.
I thought I was not going to learn anything new but I did. This abridged biography for children has wonderful illustrations and a strong delivery. Having read Hidden Figures and seen the movie I gotta say, she is one impressive lady.
I am not unfamiliar with Katherine Johnson. When the NACA (National Advisory Committe for Aeronautics) was hiring human "computers", Katherine applied and thus began a remarkable career. After college Katherine wanted to pursue a career in Mathematics but due to her gender and her race, she had to settle for a job as a teacher. She was by far the smartest in her class and also the youngest person in the room (having skipped three grades). She attended high school in New York, university in North Carolina (Go Blue Devils!!!!) and now lives in Toronto with her husband and dog, Ella. She has also won three Silver Birch awards and a Red Cedar award. She has won the Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing for Children twice,once for The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea and once for The Insecto-Files, and the Picture Book of the Year Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association for A Porcupine in a Pine Tree. Greenie's Mad Lab was a finalist at MIP.com Junior in Cannes. She also writes for children’s magazines and for children's television. Helaine Becker has written over 70 books, including the #1 National bestseller, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree,and its sequel, Dashing through the Snow, Sloth at the Zoom, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, the Looney Bay All-Stars chapter book series, non-fiction including Counting on Katherine, Worms for Breakfast and Zoobots (all Junior Library Guild Selections), Monster Science, You Can Read, Lines Bars and Circles, and Boredom Blasters, plus many picture books and young adult novels.
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