TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henry,Jason
TI  - Up and away!: how two brothers invented the hot air balloon 
SN  - 1454923601
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Sterling Children's Books
KW  - Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel,
KW  - Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne,
KW  - Hot air balloons
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Balloonists
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ballooning
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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
ER  -