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HAPPY MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN’S BOOK DAY! Here’s to bringing more books from around the world to bookshelves everywhere! #ReadYourWorld This is my book review for MCBD 2018. TITLE: HIDDEN WOMEN – The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Ages 8 +) AUTHOR: Rebecca Rissman PUBLISHER: Capstone Press On this exact same day (Jan 27 th ) in 1967, Apollo 1 swallowed up three NASA astronauts. NASA came out with a plaque: A rough road leads to the stars , to learn from the tragedy and to stay inspired. The quote, however, aptly captures the spirit in the lives of the women this book explores. In a time of social and cultural oppression in America, in a time when few women pursued higher education or worked in STEM, in a time when racism was rampant, in a time when the nation raced to reach the moon, brilliant black women persevered and succeeded, but were never celebrated. This sums up why we need this book – why it is impo