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K-3
Illustrated by
Sara Palacios.
In this slightly fictionalized account (with brief invented dialogue), Engle and Palacios introduce readers to Latina air-and-space pioneer Aída de Acosta (1884–1962), who defied the sexist attitudes of her era to learn to pilot dirigibles. Lilting, intermittently rhyming text highlights the difficulties de Acosta faced. Mixed-media illustrations capture the giant scale of the dirigibles without sacrificing detail in scenes of people on the ground.
32 pp.
| Abrams
| September, 2011
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TradeISBN 978-1-4197-0011-8$16.95
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K-3
Illustrated by
Eva Montanari.
"Alberto Santos-Dumont loved floating over Paris in his own personal flying machine": a dirigible he designed. This volume describes the eccentric aeronautical engineer's large personality and his twenty-one-second flight in an airplane he built in 1906. Invented dialogue and historical figure cameos (e.g., Santos-Dumont's friend Louis Cartier, rival pilot Louis Blériot) enliven the telling, as do the cloudy, impressionistic mixed-media illustrations. Bib., ind.