The Best Pilot Books for Kids

A pilot checks over every part of his little red plane, takes off — and then the flight stops going to plan.

A young inventor's flying machine could change everything at the Air Show and beyond.

Witness the daring first cross-Channel flight that changed aviation history forever.

Twenty people who knew her stand up at her funeral and tell the story of the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license.

Two iconic women defy convention for a daring night flight adventure.

The pilot who flew the mail over the Sahara, crashed in the desert, and wrote a book about a small boy from a distant planet.

A pilot's candy drop brings hope to children in blockaded Berlin.

A fearless woman defies odds to become a pioneering WWII pilot.

A boy watches a plane land at his family’s remote bush camp and grows up to spend seventy years flying the Arctic.

A WWII pilot returns to the U.S. decades later seeking forgiveness.

A lone mouse must learn to fly to escape a world of traps and cats.

Young Americans defy neutrality, joining WWI's skies as daring pilots.

The first Black military pilots in the United States had to win an argument on the ground before they were allowed to fight in the air.

Fearless women pilots race across America in a daring 1929 air derby.

A young man takes a job in East Africa, joins the RAF with almost no training, and crash-lands in the desert.