Hot air : the (mostly) true story of the first hot-air balloon ride / Marjorie Priceman

Author:: Priceman, Marjorie
Published:: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2005]
Copyright Date:: ©2005
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

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Summary:

The story of the historic first hot-air balloon flight in 1783, told from the point of view of the duck, sheep, and rooster who were the first passengers.

Subject(s):

Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799—Juvenile literature
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810—Juvenile literature
Balloon ascensions—France—Versailles—History—Juvenile literature
Balloon ascensions—History—Fiction
Ballooning—History—Fiction

ISBN:

0689826427
9780689826429

Note:

"An Anne Schwartz book."

Awards:

Caldecott Honor Book, 2006.

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