The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane, 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight

by Mary Kay Carson

Book Overview

Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Children's Literature Award.

This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world. At a time when most people still hadn't ridden in an automobile, Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first powered, heavier-than-air flying machine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556524773
• ISBN13: 9781556524776
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8