Title: The Glorious Flight

Author: Alice and Martin Provensen

Illustrator: Alice and Martin Provensen

Copyright date: 1983

Publisher: The Viking Press

Summary: The Glorious Flight is a biographical account of the life of Louis Bleriot. He is a French father who falls in love with airplanes and dreams of becoming a pilot. He builds many airplanes that fail, but finally he is successful. Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel.

Media for illustration: Not available.

Perfect Student: This book would be perfect for students who are interested in airplanes, travel, or history.

Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. This standard is for first grade, but I believe there are similar standards in other elementary grades as well and probably even higher grades. This standard works well with this book because the illustrations are award-winning.