The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

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

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.

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.

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