Virginia tucker hidden figures book10/2/2023 I 100% appreciate that this book picked up so much traction and brought attention to these women and the work they did, but I wish the book was written more like a book, and less like a research paper. It was sentence after sentence of information dumps about NACA’s history, the women, their kids, civil rights, and anything else Shetterly thought she could cram in there. Hidden Figures felt like I was reading a textbook from high school. There still has to be elements of style and flow in it. Just because a book is non-fiction doesn’t stop it from being a book. I don’t think Shetterly grasped the concept of storytelling. Not only did the movie look great and have a spectacular story to tell, the headliners were black women! I hadn’t seen the movie before starting the book, but I was excited anyway. When the ads for Hidden Figures came out last year I was ecstatic. The writing is fairly basic (few complex sentences), and there were a few typos (omitted punctuation, a misspelled 'Glen'), but this would be very accessible for elementary students and up. I am certain that many of my students are unaware of the many of the situations and events that took place (even including the Soap Box Derby near the end) It does a nice job of incorporating important events in the Civil Rights movement and personalizing them through the individuals in the book.Īfter reading this book (and I am about to start immediately on the adult version), I have an appreciation for a little of the artistic license taken by the film. Actually, she does a nice job of describing some of the physics and mathematics involved. The book is much more dry, but if you have seen the film, you will have a much better understanding of the situations that Shetterly describes. The film is full of so much charm as it tells the story of the African-American women who were an important part of NACA, later NASA. I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is one case where I think it would be beneficial to see the movie version first.
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