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.
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