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Hodgkins, Fran

How People Learned to Fly

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Collins | November, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-029558-5 $15.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-06-445221-2 $5.99
(3) K-3 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. Illustrated by True Kelley. Hodgkins does an admirable job connecting complex ideas for an easy-to-understand explanation of flight. After a quick aerodynamics lesson, she covers such topics as people's attempts to mimic birds and how jets fly. The cheery, colorful illustrations depict movement well (though they're less helpful in portraying the difficult concepts of lift, drag, and thrust). A paper airplane experiment is appended.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

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