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Burleigh, Robert

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

40 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | February, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-6733-0 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Burleigh's vivid free-verse account of Earhart's 1932 flight from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland, the first-ever solo transatlantic flight by a woman, settles into the cockpit and describes what the legendary pilot might have seen and felt during that long, tense, exhilarating trip. Minor's paintings heighten the immediacy, depicting Earhart's blazing red Vega in both long shots and close-ups. Websites. Bib.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011