airplanes

Early readers will learn all about the pilots who soar high above their towns and cities every day, and will have fun exploring the cockpit of the world's fastest vehicles. A picture glossary helps reinforce essential vocabulary related to these high-flying community helpers.

Friends Fred and Ted fly their planes to the beach and enjoy spending the day together, even though they do things very differently all along the way.

Looks at how airplanes fly.

Offers a humorous look at the story of the Wright brothers' first historic flight at Kitty Hawk.

Follow the easy construction steps, then do test flights.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Simple text and photographs present the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their pioneering efforts in the development of the airplane.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe different kinds of planes and their unique abilities.

Bird McGill, an eleven-year-old tomboy obsessed with flying in 1942, withholds judgement while her classmates maintain that new Japanese American student Kenji Fujita is a spy, but she realizes Kenji is just as American as she is when they find evidence of real spy activity during their research for a class project.

Presents a brief overview of inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright in graphic novel format, and examines their work on the first successful powered airplane.