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How People Learned to Fly

Average rating
4.1 out of 5
Based on 27 Ratings and 6 Reviews

Book Description


People have taken dangerous risks trying to fly. Some inventors built wings for their arms and flapped them like birds. Others tried to fly with balloons or tried to glide with the wind. This book describes the creative, fascinating, and wacky experiments that people tried before the airplane was invented.

This is a Stage 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores... More
Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
BindingHardcover (8 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages40
ISBN-100060295589
ISBN-13978-0060295585
Publication Date10/16/2007
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About Fran Hodgkins (Author) : I live in beautiful midcoast Maine, where I write fiction and nonfiction for children (and sometimes adults). My latest book was published in October 2014 and is titled The Secret Galaxy. I have anoth... more
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About True Kelley (Illustrator) : True Kelley is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of True Kelley include The Dog Who Saved Santa, Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci? (Who Was...?), How Pe... more
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