The Flyers

by Allan Drummond

Just in time for the 2003 centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flight The arrival of Orville and Wilbur Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their "crazy kite" of an airplane inspires five local kids to envision their own flying machines, from sky buses that could carry hundreds of people around the world to an unbelievable machine that could go to the moon! Following each step leading up to Orville Wright's first history-making, twelve-second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374324107
• ISBN13: 9780374324100
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3