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Drummond, Allan , Drummond, Allan

The Flyers

40 pp. | Farrar/Foster | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32410-7 $$16.00

(2) K-3 In 1903, seven would-be flyers meet at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina: Orville and Wilbur Wright and five local children. The Wrights experience flight; the children foretell the age of aviation, imagining planes carrying passengers, bombs, and visitors to the moon. Drummond's illustrations create a fitting visual stage for replaying the Wright brothers' first flight and suggesting the importance of the event.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2003