The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
by Alice Provensen (Author)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Picture Puffin Books
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
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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.
Review quotes
Fact is turned into magic.—The New York Times Book Review
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.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140507294
Lexile Measure
630
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
August 19, 1987
Series
Picture Puffin Books
BISAC categories
JUV007000 - Juvenile Fiction | Classics
Library of Congress categories
Air pilots
Airplanes
Bleriot, Louis
Airplanes
Bleriot, Louis
Caldecott Medal
Winner 1984 - 1984
