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Title: First to Fly : How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane by PETER BUSBY, DAVID CRAIG ISBN: 0-375-81287-3 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Informative, Ambitious, and Not for Children Only
Comment: This book is a marvelous summary of the story of the Wright Brothers, and both children and their parents are likely to learn from it. My 6-year-old enjoyed it, in part because of the interesting mix of illustrations - there are nine handsome and painstakingly accurate full-page paintings, as well as a further mix of vintage and color photographs, diagrams and sketch plans - but this book seems intended for somewhat older children in the 8-12 age range. The book not only succeeds as biography and history, but it also tries to explain some of the mechanics and science of flying. Thus, there are insets on such topics as "How Does Wing-Warping Work?", "The Wright Wind Tunnel," and diagrams explaining concepts such as pitch, roll, and yaw. There are other insets focusing on aspects of late nineteenth-century social history ("The Bicycle Craze") and other aerial pioneers who paved the way for the Wright Brothers ("Otto Lilienthal: The Flying Man"). The book includes all of the key historical artifacts (the first picture of the first flight, Orville's elated but still understated telegram home to his father announcing "Success . . . inform Press . . . . home Christmas "). It goes beyond the first flight itself, detailing the world's surprisingly muted reaction to the Wrights' great achievement, the difficulties they had protecting their patent rights in subsequent years, and the 1908 air crash that resulted in the first fatality in an airplane and serious injuries to Orville Wright. It also tells the striking story of the brothers' father, Bishop Milton Wright, whose gift of a toy helicopter to his two young sons ultimately led to one of the most important scientific accomplishments of all time. One of the happiest aspects of the Wrights' story is that the old bishop lived to fly through the skies with his son Orville.
This book is thus a wonderful retelling for younger readers of the remarkably focused and disciplined five year-campaign in which two self-taught mechanic-scientists, neither of them a college graduate, with no corporate backing or financial resources aside from those supplied by their own successful small business, realized man's oldest dream and conquered the sky. Beyond that, it is a moving reminder for parents of the astonishing results that can sometimes grow from a gift to a child, and the willingness to foster and facilitate a child's curiosity about their world.
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Title: My Brothers' Flying Machine : Wilbur, Orville, and Me by Jim Burke, Jane Yolen ISBN: 0316971596 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane with 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight by Mary Kay Carson, Laura D'Argo ISBN: 1556524773 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers by Robert Andrew Parker, Wendie C. Old ISBN: 061813347X Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Taking Flight : The Story of the Wright Brothers by Stephen Krensky, Larry Day ISBN: 0689812248 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Into the Air: The Story of the Wright Brothers' First Flight by Robert Burleigh, Bill Wylie ISBN: 0152168036 Publisher: Silver Whistle Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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