Read and find out about flying before the airplane in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book. People have taken dangerous risks trying to fly. Some inventors built wings for their arms and flapped them like birds. Others tried to fly with balloons or tried to glide with the wind. This book describes the creative, fascinating, and wacky experiments that people tried before the airp…
Pekerjaan saya memang kedengaran membosankan— mengelilingi tempat yang itu-itu saja, diisi kaki-kaki berkeringat dan orang-orang berisik, diusik cicak-cicak kurang ajar, mendengar lagu aneh tentang tahu berbentuk bulat dan digoreng tanpa persiapan sebelumnya—tapi saya menggemarinya. Saya senang mengetahui cerita manusia dan kecoa dan tikus dan serangga yang mampir. Saya senang melihat-lihat…
Jack can't do anything without Wilson trying to beat him, which is driving him mad as Wilson always wins. Then Jack finds a strange, old book about human flight. Jack has to try the instructions in the book, because this is his big chance to do something that Wilson could never do.