The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0823408752 ISBN13: 9780823408757 Release Date: March 1991 Publisher: Holiday House Length: 128 Pages Weight: 1.85 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.3" x 9.5" Age Range: 10 years and up Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher A Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight. This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems, follows their interest from a young age in the developing field of aeronautics. Russell Freedman's writing brings the brothers' personalities to life, enhancing the record of events with excerpts from the brothers' writing and correspondence, and accounts of those who knew them. Chronicling their lives from their early mechanical work on toys and bicycles through the development of several flyers, The Wright Brothers follows the siblings through their achievements--not only the first po