The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen.
By: Provensen, Alice.
Contributor(s): Provensen, Martin.
New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, ©1987, 1983Description: 39 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm.ISBN: 0140507299 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936 -- Juvenile literature | Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936 | Air pilots | Airplanes -- Design and constructionDDC classification: 629.130924/P948 Awards: Caldecott Medal, 1984.Summary: A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983.
Caldecott Medal, 1984. Art techniques used: Sepia toned acrylic, pen and ink illustrations with folk like, stylized characters.
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.
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Caldecott Medal, 1984.
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