Provensen, Alice.

The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen. - New York : Puffin Books, 1987, c1983. - 39 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983.

Caldecott Medal, 1984

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.

3.5 Follett Library Resources 3-6

0140507299 (pbk.) : $4.95

86025473 /AC/r87


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


Air pilots--Juvenile literature.
Airplanes--Design and construction--Juvenile literature.
Air pilots.
Airplanes--Design and construction.
Airplanes--Design and construction.
Air pilots--Biography.

TL721.B5 / P76 1987

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