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Taking Off Airborne with Mary Wilkins Ellis Format: Hardback

Description: Witness the true story of how Mary Wilkins Ellis’ childhood passion for flying led to an exciting career in the air, written and illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist.


As a child, Mary Wilkins Ellis longed to fly, but she had to wait until she was 16 before she could have her first lesson. She soon became the youngest licensed pilot in her English county, but then all civilian flight was banned when Germany launched its attacks on Britain in 1940. Mary was grounded.

One day she chanced to hear a radio appeal for Britons with pilot’s licenses—even women—to join the Air Transport Auxiliary and ferry brand new fighter planes to Royal Air Force bases. Mary immediately applied, and spent the rest of the war delivering hundreds of different kinds of aircraft—most of which she’d never flown before—forming lifelong bonds with her colleagues, surviving many a close call, and helping to save her country from destruction.

After the war she became a flight instructor, ran an air taxi service, then managed an airfield, the only woman in Europe to do so. In her spare time, she won rallies in her racing car. Mary’s childhood dream became a thrilling lifetime aloft, lasting until she died at 101.

With watercolor and ink illustrations which perfectly capture the exhilaration of flying, Taking Off brings this little-known figure and her can-do spirit to life.

Extensive material in the back of the book includes additional information about Mary Wilkins Ellis and the Airport Transport Auxiliary, as well as sources.

Price: 16.35 USD

Location: Avenel, New Jersey

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Book Title: Taking Off : Airborne with Mary Wilkins Ellis

Number of Pages: 40 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Holiday House, Incorporated

Item Height: 0.4 in

Publication Year: 2022

Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Women, History / Military & Wars, Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science, World

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, History

Item Weight: 14 Oz

Item Length: 11.3 in

Author: Emily Arnold Mccully

Item Width: 8.9 in

Format: Hardcover

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