Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight
by Ryan Ann Hunter (Author) Yan Nascimbene (Illustrator)
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Offering a brief line of text and several sidebars per spread, Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight by Ryan Ann Hunter, illus. by Yan Nascimbene, charts the development of flight from "giant dragonflies [that] zigzagged through steamy swamps above the heads of lumbering reptiles" (a sidebar shows one from 325 million years ago with a two-foot wingspan) to early balloons and gliders (another sidebar depicts Leonardo da Vinci's models of flying machines called "ornithopters") and finally the invention of the airplane itself. Spare, full-bleed illustrations make a dramatic and attractive backdrop for this study of airborne creatures, both animal and human.
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JNF057010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation | Aviation
