Product Description: Ten exciting stories tell of the success and failures of many famous inventors and pilots in the quest for flight. Stories include: the first hot-air balloon to carry people, the Wright brothers and the first airplane, Charles Lindberghs nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, Amelia Earharts attempt at a round-the-world flight, breaking the sound barrier, and Felix Baumgartners skydive from space...read more

Product Description: Taking to the skies has always been a dream for human beings. Watching birds and bees take flight while people remained chained to the soil provided the inspiration to experiment with machines capable of flying high overhead. But these experiments proved dangerousand often deadly...read more

Product Description: This title introduces readers to facts about planes and flying.

Product Description: Give kids a chance to swim with the fishes at the bottom of the sea, explore the cosmos, dive into the dark world of caves and more. The exciting topics and facts in the Biggest, Baddest Books series are sure to engage readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards...read more

Product Description: Fascinating facts about planes, plus four easy-to-build models make this book perfect for budding pilots aged 5 and up. No glue, no cutting, just press out the pieces and slot them together. Models include the very first plane made by the Wright brothers, a Boeing 747, Concorde, and the Superscooper firefighting plane...read more

Product Description: In 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright completed the first successful flight of a heavier-than-air craft, at once realizing the centuries-old dream of human flight and paving the way for generations of explorers to come. With clear text and illustrated timelines, this book takes students through the events leading up to that historical moment and the milestones that have since followed, while informative sidebars and clear diagrams explore developments in flight in more detail...read more

Product Description: Very few things capture the human imagination like flight. Starting with natural flyers such as birds and squirrels, and then progressing through the history of man's quest to take to the air, Kingfisher Readers L4: Flight by Chris Oxlade looks at all of the aspects of flight including different types of flying machines, important inventions, the forces on a plane, and the challenges of getting into space...read more

Product Description: Flight is with high-quality images and diagrams on the history of flight and space travel as well as specific planes from the Wright flyer to the Zeppelin.How do planes stay in the air? How does a space shuttle overcome gravity? Which was the first plane to fly faster than the speed of sound? Flight, a new book in the visually stunning, groundbreaking INSIDERS series, answers all these questions and more...read more

Product Description: While the Wright Brothers were gliding over Kitty Hawk, the charming Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont was making his own mark on the history of flight. Alberto loved floating over Paris in his personal flying machine called a dirigible...read more

Product Description: Like fastfact readers, this core knowledge and curriculum guide offers personal accounts, timelines and primary sources and with the highest quality graphic presentation will thrill young readers. With hundreds of facts about the beginning of flight, as well as the "logic of invention," this book will introduce "aeronautics" to children and stimulate imaginative and thrilling reading and rereading...read more