Flight, Robert Burleigh
Flight, Robert Burleigh
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Flight

Author: Robert Burleigh

Narrator: Susan Pelosi

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/22/2019


Synopsis

Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Flight. Loneliness. Fear. Danger. Courage. Charles Lindbergh considered all these things and more when he set out for Paris on the morning of May 20, 1927, with only two compasses and the stars for his guides. Experience all the drama of Lindbergh's history-making flight with startling intimacy as you travel along with the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, and follow the courage and endurance of one man who dared to make his dream come true.

"(A) glorious re-creation of an epic adventure."--Publishers Weekly
"Brings new life to one of the stories of the century."--Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Robert Burleigh has published poems, reviews, essays, many filmstrips and videos, and more than 40 children's picture books. Born and raised in Chicago, he graduated from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) and later received an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. His  books - including numerous unpublished ones! - run a broad gamut, from stories geared for pre-schoolers to survival stories and biographies aimed at seven to eleven-year-olds.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yang

This book by Robert Burleigh .It's an amazing book to know that part history.From this story I have this feeling. When you try do something hard you should know that can not be always successful. When you get problems, you should keep doing, or find why this happen. Like this man in the story, when......more

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Flight is a historical picture book that tells the story of Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris. Charles has dreamed of flying to Paris for years and wants to become the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and change the history of aeronautics. He and his plane, Spirit of St.......more

Goodreads review by Janna

Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh written by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Mike Wimmer is a biography of Charles Lindbergh and his flight across the ocean, the first solo Atlantic crossing. This book won the 1992 Orbis Pictus Award and is intended for the primary age group. I would rate......more

Goodreads review by Megan

In May of 1927, Charles Lindbergh left New York for Paris, France in his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis. The flight was over 3,000 miles and was going to take him thirty hours or more to complete. On his journey, Lindbergh experienced loneliness, fear, sleep-deprivation, and hunger; however, he d......more