Feathers, flaps & flops : fabulous early fliers /
Zaunders, Bo.,
Feathers, flaps & flops : fabulous early fliers / by Bo Zaunders ; illustrated by Roxie Munro. - New York : Dutton Children's Books, (c)2001. - 48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
The Montgolfier brothers: Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810 and Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799 (inventors of the hot-air balloon) -- Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1873-1932 (master of the dirigible) -- Cal Rodgers, 1879-1912 (the first to fly across America) -- Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926 (the first black female pilot) -- Jimmy Doolittle, 1896-1993 (daredevil aviator and pilot) -- Beryl Markham, 1902-1986 (the first to cross the Atlantic, east to west) -- "Wrong Way" Corrigan, 1907-1995 (prankster aviator).
00058693
Aeronautics--History--Juvenile literature.
Air pilots--Juvenile literature.
TL547 / .F438 2001
Feathers, flaps & flops : fabulous early fliers / by Bo Zaunders ; illustrated by Roxie Munro. - New York : Dutton Children's Books, (c)2001. - 48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
The Montgolfier brothers: Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810 and Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799 (inventors of the hot-air balloon) -- Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1873-1932 (master of the dirigible) -- Cal Rodgers, 1879-1912 (the first to fly across America) -- Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926 (the first black female pilot) -- Jimmy Doolittle, 1896-1993 (daredevil aviator and pilot) -- Beryl Markham, 1902-1986 (the first to cross the Atlantic, east to west) -- "Wrong Way" Corrigan, 1907-1995 (prankster aviator).
00058693
Aeronautics--History--Juvenile literature.
Air pilots--Juvenile literature.
TL547 / .F438 2001