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48 pp.
| Sterling
| August, 2018
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-2360-2$16.95
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K-3
In eighteenth-century France, "dreamer" Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and his more practical brother, Jacques-Etienne, used their complementary skills to invent and launch the first hot-air balloon. Playful digital paintings depict the invention's intricate details and capture the remarkable flight over verdant countryside and Louis XVI's Versailles. An attractive and informative introduction to these pioneers of flight. Reading list, timeline. Bib.
32 pp.
| Harcourt/Gulliver
| April, 2000
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TradeISBN 0-15-202195-7$$16.00
(2)
K-3
This engaging, re-envisioned, animal's-eye view of an actual event--the 1783 launch at Versailles, by the brothers Montgolfier, of the first "passengered" hot-air balloon (the occupants were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster)--posits the existence of a flight-crazed sheep named Mouton. McGrory introduces this small corner of history through Mouton's highly sympathetic personality and through her light, atmospheric watercolors.