Feathers, Flaps, & Flops, Fabulous Early Fliers by Bo Zaunders

Grade:  3-6

Summary:  From a Persian king's attempt to harness eagles in 1500 B.C.E. to "Wrong Way" Corrigan's 1938 flight to Ireland, Zaunders has gathered some of the most colorful and fascinating stories of flight into a thoroughly pleasing book. . 

Wrong Way" Corrigan said he would fly to California but actually ended up in Ireland. Beryl Markham, the first woman in Africa to obtain a commercial pilot's license, accepted the challenge of a solo transatlantic flight on a dinner-party bet. Bessie Coleman, a black woman born into a world of poverty and racism in Texas, became a top-notch stunt pilot and dreamed of opening a flight school for African-Americans.

Indeed, the history of the ancient human desire to defy gravity is of necessity the history of colorful dreamers possessed of imagination, dedication, and derring-do.

Book Details: 48 pages
Condition: hardcover, very good; Ex-library book w/mylar dj and library label on front endpage