BOOKS
FOR CHILDREN ABOUT FLIGHT AND THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Cole, Joanna. The
Magic School Bus: Taking Flight. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
Summary: In order to discover
how things fly, Ms. Frizzle and her class are shrunk inside Wanda and Tim's
model airplane and learn about how wings and moving air affect flight in a
series of high adventure. from Ingram
Cotton, Eileen
Giuffre. Dreams of Flight (Book2Web). Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Dorfman,
Janet. The Wright Brothers. Pelham: Benchmark Education Company, 2002.
Freedman,
Russell. The Wright Brothers: How they Invented the Airplane. New York:
Holiday House, 1991.
Summary:
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed
the first airplane.
Jacobs,
Daniel. Flying. New York: Newbridge Educational Publishing, 1999.
Joseph, Paul. The
Wright Brothers. Edina: Abdo & Daughters, 1997.
Summary: Sketches the lives of the two men responsible for the firs
flight of a machine-powered aircraft on December 17, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina .
Justice, Lee.
S. Fly High. New York: Addison-Wesley.
Krensky,
Stephen. Taking Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers. New York:
Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000.
Summary: Describes how the Wright Brothers came to build and fly the first powered aircraft.
MacLeod,
Elizabeth. The Wright Brothers: A Flying Start. Toronto: Kids Can
Press, 2002.
Summary: As young men, Orville and Wilbur Wright had a
dream. They believed that one day people would fly, and they were determined
to be the first. Despite setbacks that would have discouraged many inventors,
the Wright brothers' dream came true. From a windy sand dune near Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, they made a short 120 foot flight - and flew into aviation
history.
Old, Wendie. To
Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers. New York: Clarion Books, 2002.
Summary: Traces the work the the two Wright brothers did together to
develop the first machine-powered aircraft.http://sln.fi.edu/wright/index.html
Reynolds,
Quentin. The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation. New York:
Random House, 1950.
Summary: A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio who built and
flew the first airplane.
Schulz, Walter
A. Will and Orv. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1991.
Summary: On a windy day in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, the Wright
brothers attempt to make history as they prepare the "Flyer" for the
first engine-powered flight.
Shea, George. First
Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers. Harper Trophy.
1997.
Summary: A boy named Tom Tate meets Orville and Wilbur Wright and witnesses
the invention of the airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Sobol, Donald
J. The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. New York: Scholastic, 1961.
Summary: Orville and Wilbur Wright were a couple of bicycle salesmen from
Dayton, Ohio, who shared a common dream: to fly a powered machine.
Tate, Suzanne.
Helping the Wright Brothers, A Tale of First Flight Helpers. Nags Head:
Nags Head Art, 1999.
Summary: A story of the Tate family who lived at Kitty Hawk and helped the
famous brothers with their experiments in flight. It was written with the
assistance of the National Park Service historian at the Wright Brothers
National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills.
Woods, Andrew.
Young Orville and Wilbur Wright, First to Fly (First Start Biographies).
New York: Troll Communications, 1992.
Summary: A simple biography of the brothers who
launched the air age in 1903 when their flying machine stayed in the air for
twelve seconds. by Ingram
Wright,
Orville. How We Invented the Airplane. Mineola: Dover Publications,
1953.
Summary: Fascinating firsthand account covers early experiments,
construction of planes and motors, first flights, much more.
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BOOKS
FOR CHILDREN ABOUT WIND
Canizares, Susan,
Betsey Chessen. Wind (Science Emergent Readers),
Scholastic,
1998.
De La Fontaine, Jean.
The North
Wind and the Sun, Oxford Univ Pr Childrens Books.
Dorros, Arthur.
Feel the Wind.
Scott Foresman,
1990
Fowler, Allan. Can
You See the Wind? (Rookie Read-About Science.
Children's Book Press, 1999.
Ganeri, Anita. I
Wonder Why the Wind Blows : and Other Questions About Our Planet.
Kingfisher Books,
1994.
Hutchins, Pat. The Wind Blew.
Aladdin Library,
1993.
Karas, G. The Windy Day. Simon & Schuster Children's
Publishing, 1998.
White, Linda Arms. Comes a Wind. DK Publishing, 2000.
Wilhelm, Hans.
It's
Too Windy! (Hello Reader. Level 1).
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BOOKS FOR ADULTS
Crouch, Tom. The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville
Wright. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright
Brothers. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1987.
Jakab, Peter L. and Rick Young, ed. The Published Writings of
Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2000.
Jakab, Peter. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and
the Process of Invention. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1990.
Kelly, Fred C. ed. Miracle at Kitty Hawk. New York: Da Capo
Press, 1996.
Kirk, Stephen. First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North
Carolina. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: John F. Blair Publisher, 1995.
McFarland, Marvin W. ed. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Tobin, James. To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great
Race fro Flight. New York: Free Press, 2003.
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS
Flying Machines, A Science-By-Mail-Challenge. Boston: Museum of
Science, 1992.
Tunnell, Lorrie. Flight, Hands-on Mind-On Science. Westminister, CA, 2000.
Vaden, Judy. Flight Thematic Unit. Westminister, CA,
1991.
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