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  • The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

Author
Alice Provensen
Publication Date
August 01, 1987
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
Description

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

"Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot's first experience of an airship"--Kirkus Reviews

Publication date
August 01, 1987
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140507294
Lexile Measure
630
Publisher
Puffin Books
BISAC categories
JUV007000 - Juvenile Fiction | Classics
Library of Congress categories
Air pilots
Airplanes
Bleriot, Louis

Publishers Weekly

The magnificent Caldecott Medalwinning book about a daring historic event. Ages 3-8. (May)

Kirkus

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.

School Library Journal

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.
Alice Provensen
Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited. They won the Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Flight.
Caldecott Medal
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Winner 1984 - 1984
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