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The Flyers
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2003-09-06)
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Amazon Description
The arrival of Orville and Wilbur Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their “crazy kite” of an airplane inspires five local kids to envision their own flying machines, from sky buses that could carry hundreds of people around the world to an unbelievable machine that could go to the moon! Following each step leading up to Orville Wright’s first history-making, twelve-second flight on December 17, 1903, the children take flights of their own, letting the ocean breeze catch their coattails as they dash across the dunes.
This whimsical tale comes to life with charming prose and airy watercolors, accompanied by a pictorial time line. The author’s tribute to the most wonderful flights of all – those of the imagination – lets us soar like the Wright brothers.
One Potato Review
The beginnings of flight, from Wilbur and Orville through the wild imaginations that might have been following right behind them that day on the beach in 1903. Complete with a nice little history on the final pages, billowing around a boy and his tail-spinning kite. The eye-opener here is there’s not a whole lot to document after Neil Armstrong in 1969, indeed the plane that is pictured in 1958 when “Jet travel becomes the most popular way to travel in the world” looks depressingly like the ones we’re still riding today. Like Drummond’s Tin Lizzie, about the past - and checkered present - of the automobile, this story is partly a reminder of all of the stuff that doesn’t get done when we forget to think big.
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