A Dream of Flight

By Jef Polivka, Rob Polivka (Author/Illustrator)

An inventor risks it all to win a daring airship race around the Eiffel Tower.

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40 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Alberto Santos-Dumont, a visionary inventor, dreams of uniting the world through flight. In 1901, he faces his greatest challenge: winning the prestigious Deutsch Prize by flying his airship around the Eiffel Tower. As disaster strikes mid-air, will his determination and ingenuity be enough to overcome the odds? Dive into this thrilling tale of ambition, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of dreams.

From the publisher

Years before the invention of the modern airplane, Alberto Santos-Dumont dreamed of flying. As a boy, he was mesmerized by the machinery on his father’s coffee plantation in Brazil and went on to study science and engineering in France. Soon his groundbreaking—and sometimes silly—inventions became the talk of Paris, especially after he set his sights on building an airship that could bring the world’s people together. His small stature and big ideas earned him the nickname “Le Petite Santos.”

This is the story of Santos’s successful race for the Deutsche Prize, and his many failures along the way. Chock-full of cool diagrams, charming Parisian scenes, and graphic novel-style spot illustrations, A Dream of Flight will have young readers looking to the sky and scheming up their own aerial inventions.

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