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Author Provensen, Alice.

Title The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987, ©1983.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB BLERIOT    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  PEOPLE & PLACES E PRO    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction  J 629.13 PRO    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J B BLERIOT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Caldecott Award Books  J 629.13 PROVENSEN - CALDECOTT    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department  JE P PROVENSEN    Check Shelf
Description 39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm
Note Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983.
Art techniques used: Sepia toned acrylic, pen and ink illustrations with folk like, stylized characters.
Summary 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.
Subject Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936 -- Juvenile literature.
Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936.
Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936. (OCoLC)fst00091506
Bleriot, Louis,
Air pilots.
Airplanes -- Design and construction.
Air pilots -- Juvenile literature.
Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Juvenile literature.
Caldecott Medal winners.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author Provensen, Martin.
Other Form: Online version: Provensen, Alice. Glorious flight. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987, ©1983 (OCoLC)895118125
ISBN 0140507299 (pbk.)
9780140507294 (pbk.)
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