  | Up periscope! : how engineer Raye Montague revolutionized shipbuilding Author: Swanson, Jennifer | |
| Price: $23.78 | ||
Summary:
A picture book biography of engineer Raye Montague, who revolutionized the way the navy designed ships by developing her own comprehensive computer program.
| Illustrator: | Jamison, Veronica Miller |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (09/15/24)
School Library Journal (+) (00/09/24)
Booklist (11/01/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 11/01/2024 As a little Black girl in 1940s Little Rock, Arkansas, Raye Montague’s “life was a little out of focus,” but her mom said that she could “learn anything . . . do anything . . . be anything.” When Montague’s grandfather brought her to see a WWII submarine, “her entire life popped into focus.” Montague jumped hurdle after hurdle chasing her dream of designing ships, achieving an education and then working as a typist for male Navy engineers. She learned at night how to program and use a UNIVAC computer and, when her racist and sexist colleagues set her a task they thought impossible, Montague became the first person to create a computer program that could design an entire ship. This engaging, satisfying true story, based on Swanson's conversations with Montague, is told in more detail in the back matter and accompanied on every page by large, vivid images, many backed with blueprints of marine vessels, of Montague as a child and later at work (a lovely highlight is her changing, realistic hairstyles over the years). An intriguing biography of a lesser-known engineer. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
