Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

By Robert Burleigh

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416967338
• ISBN13: 9781416967330
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3