"Out-this world, inspirational story of the ingenious African American woman behind the Apollo 13 moon landings"
Winner of the UKLA Book Awards 2020
Told with crystalline clarity and verve, and fabulously enhanced by the stylish illustrations, this tells the remarkable against-the-odds tale of Katherine Johnson from her days as an exceptional African American schoolgirl whose “boundless curiosity turned her into a star student”. But despite her brightness, ten-year-old Katherine faced the terrible restraints of segregation – as an African American she wasn’t permitted to study at her local high school.
As she “burned with fury”, her family determined to get Katherine the education she deserved and so they moved to a town with a high school for black students. Her path to working on Project Apollo required incredible perseverance, but thanks to that, and to her outstanding mathematical skills, the world could count on Katherine to set the moon landings back on course.
Shot-through with a rousing sense of Katherine’s determination and dedication to her work, and with her shining mathematical brilliance, this beautiful book deserves to be on the shelves of every space-loving child.
Katherine Johnson is the mathematical genius who helped make the historic Apollo 11 moon landings possible and made sure that Apollo 13 returned home safely when the mission was in critical danger. As a child, Katherine loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink, everything! Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about maths, about the universe . . .
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Katherine Johnson is the mathematical genius who helped make the historic Apollo 11 moon landings possible and made sure that Apollo 13 returned home safely when the mission was in critical danger. As a child, Katherine loved to count.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Counting on Katherine and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-10 years old
Counting on Katherine features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations, History, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, People / Places, Space, The Natural World, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Science
Paperback, Hardback. £8.09, down from the £8.99 cover price. In Stock.
Counting on Katherine was written by Helaine Becker and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Counting on Katherine has 40 pages
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. In Stock.
