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Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen - The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot

Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen - The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot

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"This book . . . recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis, 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".--School Library Journal. Caldecott Medal.

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The Glorious Flight and all that leads up to it

byartemis8 Jan 2, 2004
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Pros great story for children, soft and lovely artwork
Cons none
Recommended it? Yes

In the past year or so I have become interested in flying, thinking about/and somewhat working toward a private pilot license. Planes are such interesting things, allowing humans to fly. This book, by Alice and Martin Provensen, appealed to me because it chronicles the events that lead up to Louis... Read full review »

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Key Information

Authors Martin Provensen
Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
Narrator Peter Fernandez
Awards 1984 Caldecott Medal

Book Editions

Other - PACKAGEOctober 30, 1987Live Oak Media9781595190383

First Line

It all began one morning.
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