Provensen, Alice.

The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Bl�eriot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen. - New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987, �1983. - 39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm

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

0140507299 (pbk.) 9780140507294 (pbk.)

86025473


Bl�eriot, Louis, 1872-1936 --Juvenile literature.
Bl�eriot, Louis, 1872-1936.


Air pilots.
Airplanes--Design and construction.
Caldecott Medal.

JUV TL 721 .B5 / P76 1987