The Glorious Flight

By Alice Provensen & Martin Provensen. Published by Puffin. 

Softcover, 40 pages, Colour, 1983

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.

“Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot’s first experience of an airship”—Kirkus Reviews