The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

by Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen

Overview

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101643716
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/14/2010
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	43 MB
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Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Alice Provensen and her husband, Martin, won the Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Flight. She currently lives in San Clemente, California.

Editorial Reviews

"Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot's first experience of an airship . . . There's dash, style, and economy here in both text and pictures."—Kirkus Reviews

"Fact is turned into magic."—The New York Times Book Review

"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity . . . The paintings...add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen"—School Library Journal

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