A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont's Race Around the Eiffel Tower

by Jef Polivka and Rob Polivka

Book Overview

Debut nonfiction duo Rob and Jef Polivka offer an illustrated madcap adventure in A Dream of Flight, a dynamic biography of Alberto Santos-Dumont, an inventor who risked everything to reach the skies. And sure enough, his successes and failures brought the world's people closer together.

Ready? Set. Fly

At the turn of the twentieth century, no aviation prize was more coveted in Europe than the Deutsch Prize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374306613
• ISBN13: 9780374306618
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3