Books like The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
By Alice & Martin Provensen
For the kid who lines up toy planes on the windowsill and asks how things fly, this is a book about the real man who helped answer that question. Old-fashioned, sunny, and quietly triumphant, with a gentle sense of wonder about early flight.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
A precocious girl wakes early every Monday, drags her chair down the hallway past her sleepy family, and waits outside for the one honking arrival she's been looking forward to all week.
A NASA rover named Curiosity tells her own story of traveling more than 350,000,000 miles to Mars, where she explores a planet no human has ever visited in search of signs of life.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
After the gods fail again and again to create lasting humans across five different suns, Quetzalcóatl the Feathered Serpent alone refuses to give up, journeying to the underworld to retrieve the sacred bones of creation.
A science picture book zooms in on atoms and elements, then shows how scientists manipulate very (very) small materials to build self-washing windows, stronger airplanes, and other everyday wonders.
In 1974, a French aerialist strings a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spends an hour walking, dancing, and performing tricks a quarter mile above the city.
Pilot Small takes his little red airplane up over the countryside, loops through the sky, makes an emergency landing, and flies safely home to the hangar.
A fearless young woman falls in love with flying after her first airplane ride, then defies people who scoff at her dreams to become a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
A tour through the natural world reveals how seeds travel to new ground — riding ocean waves, rolling in dung beetle balls, or drifting away on the wind.
The true story of a boy born to formerly enslaved parents who reads the newspaper aloud to his father every day, then carries that hunger for knowledge into the coal mines and beyond, eventually transforming how the world understands Black history.
Six blind mice each investigate a mysterious Something by the pond, one by one, and each returns with a different, contradictory guess about what it is.
