Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 (Picture Puffin Books)
by Alice Provensen
appears in About France, Children's, and History.
"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, captionlike in its directness and brevity....The paintings...add the necessary testure and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen" ? School Library Journal...
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appears in About France, Children's, and History.
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