Age
4-8
Grade
PK-3
Robert Burleigh, Wendell Minor
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Hardcover
(Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books Feb. 22, 2011)
, 1 edition
“Hearts will be racing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A work to inspire further learning.” —Booklist (starred review) “Vivid.” —The Horn Book A picture book biography of the first woman in flight—Amelia Earhart—by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner Robert Burleigh.Award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured Amelia Earhart's first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. She was only the second person to do this – and the first woman. Rich in detail, feeling and incident this is nonfiction with edge and action, a you-are-there experience made more dramatic and real by Wendell Minor's vivid paintings.
- ISBN
- 9781416967 / 9781416967330
- Pages
- 40
- Weight
- 16.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 0.4
in.