Up and away! : how two brothers invented the hot air balloon / by Jason Henry.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Sterling Children's Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1454923601
- 9781454923602
- Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810 -- Juvenile literature
- Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799 -- Juvenile literature
- Hot air balloons -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Balloonists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Ballooning -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature
- Aeronautics -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"It will . . . sweep readers away." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Henry's lush, digital artwork depicts the splendors of eighteenth-century France . . . a good addition to units on aviation and inventors." -- Booklist
More than a century before the Wright Brothers invented their plane, Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier sent a flying machine into the skies--a hot-air balloon with three animals in the basket. Go up, up, and away with them on their first, magical journey!
Back in 1782, in Ardèche, France, lived Joseph Montgolfier, a dreamer and an inventor who liked to learn about how everything worked. When one day a gust of wind blew his papers into the fireplace, he noticed that something lifted the pieces into the air--and he realized that heat could make things rise. With the help of his brother, Étienne, he began to experiment . . . and created a new kind of flying machine: a hot-air balloon! This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of how the balloon came to be, King Louis XVI's visit to see it fly, and the three animals--a rooster, a duck, and a sheep--who became its very first passengers.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Back in 1782, in Annonay, France, lived Joseph Montgolfier, a dreamer and an inventor who was curious about how everything worked. When one day a gust of wind blew his papers into the fireplace, he noticed that something lifted the pages into the air--and he realized that heat could make things rise. With the help of his brother Étienne, he began to experiment ... and created the world's first flying machine, sparking the birth of flight. This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of how his hot-air balloon came to be, King Louis XVI's visit to see it fly, and the three animals--a rooster, a duck, and a sheep--who became its very first passengers"--Jacket.