The glorious flight

Alice Provensen Martin Provensen First published 1983

About this book

A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.

Subjects

age:max:8
age:min:5
air pilots
air pilots, juvenile literature
airplanes
airplanes, juvenile literature
award:caldecott_award
bleriot, louis, 1872-1936
caldecott medal
collectionid:caldecott80
design and construction
endurance flights
fiction
flying-machines
grade:max:3
grade:min:kindergarten
juvenile fiction
juvenile literature
lexile:630
lexile_range:601-700
young children's, early learning & special book types