The Horn Book Guide

TECHNOLOGY

Edwards, Pamela Duncan

The Wright Brothers

40 pp. | Hyperion | June, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-1951-0 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-7868-2682-7 $$16.49

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Henry Cole. Events leading up to the Wright brothers' first flight are described in a text that uses a "House That Jack Built" cumulative prose style. The color art is adequately rendered but hampered by the inclusion of a group of tiny cartoon mice who pop up here and there and make unnecessary remarks ("I can't believe how big Orville and Wilbur's glider is"). Timeline.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta