Books with title The Avion My Uncle Flew

When twelve-year-old Johnny Littlehorn's father returns from the front lines, after WWII is over, and announces they're spending the summer in France, Johnny doesn't want to leave their Wyoming ranch. But what starts off as a boring trip soon turns into a frightening adventure. A sinister man trails Johnny throughout Paris and follows him to his uncle s village of St. Chamant. With the help of his new friends, Suzanne and Charles, Johnny follows a winding trail that leads to a fugitive spy, a German pistolet hidden in a loaf of bread and a stolen fortune. Before long, he s learning French, helping his oncle Paul build an avion, and unraveling an evil Nazi plot! Original illustrations by Richard Floethe. New cover by Jamin Still, take a look at more of his work jaminstill.com

A Newbery Honor Book: Spending the summer in a dull French village is not what Johnny had in mind . . . but soon he’s hot on the trail of a Nazi spy! When twelve-and-a-half-year-old Johnny Littlehorn’s dad returns from the front lines and announces they’re spending the summer in France, Johnny is appalled. He doesn’t understand why they’re going to France when they could stay home at their Wyoming ranch instead. But that’s before he discovers an old German pistol hidden in a loaf of bread. When Johnny arrives, he finds the village of Saint-Chamant anything but boring. With the help of his new friends Suzanne and Charles, Johnny follows a winding trail that leads to a fugitive spy and a stolen fortune. Before long, he’s learning French, helping his oncle Paul build a real airplane, and unraveling an evil Nazi plot!

London: Peter Lunn, 1946. First Edition. 12mo, 253 pp. Black cloth, pictorial jacket. VG+/VG+. A scarce unclipped jacket, still showing "8s 6d net" has small nicks and some soiling; book shows spotting to cloth spine, light offsetting to endpapers, light splay typical of the thin boards. Better than VG book in better than VG unclipped jacket. A Newbery Honor Book in 1947; the tale of Johnny Littlehorn, an American boy who is sent to France immediately after World War II to stay with his eccentric, aviation-minded uncle and recuperate from an injury. He eludes Nazi spies, learns to communicate with the locals, and conqers homesickness. The book increasingly incorporates French vocabulary words throughout, with the last four pages written entirely in French. A classic of juvenile fiction. L-34n