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Title: LINDBERGH-GLB by Chris L. Demarest ISBN: 0-517-58719-X Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 10 August, 1993 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99

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Summary: A watercolor history of Lindbergh from boyhood to Paris
Comment: I had not realized it, but this year is the 75th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. So I was curious to see what was out there in terms of juvenile literature about the Lone Eagle. Chris L. Demarest does both the writing and the watercolor illustrations in "Lindbergh." The book goes from Lindbergh's birth in 1902, when "not a single plane flew in the American sky," and ends with the Spirit of St. Louis touching down in Paris. An afterword touches on Lindbergh's life after his historic flight, which included helping to develop the first heart pump successfully used to keep patients alive during transplant operations, although it does refrain from talking about the kidnapping of his first sun (which is not especially something young readers need to know about). Demarest gives a nice sense of what life what like for Lindbergh when he was a boy and covers his love of flying which led to the trans-Atlantic flight. The highlights of the flight are covered, so "Lindbergh" certainly gives young readers an introduction into one of the great American heroes of the 20th century.