Provensen, Alice,

The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen. - New York : Puffin Books, (c)1987. - 39 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm.

A biography of the Louis Bleriot, whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, a plane that crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900s.






Bleriot, Louis, 1872-1936 --Juvenile literature.


Caldecott medal, 1984.
Air pilots--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Airplanes--Design and construction--Juvenile literature.

TL721 / .G567 1983 TL721