titles about airplanes and pilots
Juvenile Fiction
Coast to Coast
– Betsy Byars
In Plane Sight – Franklin W. Dixon
Sparrow Hawk Red – Ben Mikaelsen
Wingwalker – Rosemary Wells
Picture Books
Going On a Plane
– Anne Civardi
This Plane – Paul Collicutt
The Ugly Truckling – David Gordon
I'll See You In My Dreams – Mavis Jukes
Olvina Flies – Grace Lin
First Flight – David McPhail
Fly Away! – Helen Oechsli
Miss Mouse Takes Off – Jan Ormerod
I Fly – Anne Rockwell
Toad Takes Off – Susan Schade
Bored-Nothing to Do! – Peter Spier
I Love Planes! – Philemon Sturges
Nonfiction
Breaking the Sound Barrier
– Nathan Aaseng
How Do Airplanes Fly? A Book about Airplanes – Melvin & Gilda Berger
DK Big Book of Airplanes – Caroline Bingham
The Tuskegee Airmen
– Philip Brooks
Female Firsts In Their Field: Air & Space – Doug Buchanan
Using Math to Fly a Jumbo Jet – Wendy Clemson
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane – Russell Freedman
Test Pilot: Taking Chances In the Air – Keith Elliot Greenberg
Aero-Mania! – Bill Gunston
Military Aircraft of WWI – Ole Steen Hansen
Military Aircraft of WWII – Ole Steen Hansen
Weird & Wonderful Aircraft – Ole Steen Hansen
The Wright Brothers and Other Pioneers of Flight – Ole Steen Hansen
U.S. Air Force Fighting Vehicles – Ellen Hopkins
Amazing Flying Machines – Robin Kerrod
Identifying World War II Airplanes – David Lee
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II –
Patricia & Fredrick McKissack
The Airplane Alphabet Book – Jerry Pallotta
Going On an Airplane – Melinda Beth Radabaugh
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the
Candy That Dropped From the Sky – Margot Theis Raven
Air Force One – Andrew Santella
Stunt Planes – Jeff Savage
American Heroes of Exploration and Flight – Anne Schraff
Amazing Aircraft – Seymour Simon
Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly – David Weitzman
My Brothers' Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me – Jane Yolen
Feathers, Flaps & Flops: Fabulous Early Fliers – Bo Zaunders
Biography
A Picture Book of Amelia
Earhart – David A. Adler
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman – Louise Borden & Mary Kay Kroeger
Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright – Mary Collins
Charles Lindbergh: A Photo-Illustrated Biography – Lucile Davis
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman – Nikki
Grimes
The Wright Sister – Richard Maurer
Brave Harriet: The First Woman to Fly the
English Channel
– Marissa Moss
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot,
July 25, 1909
– Alice & Martin Provensen
Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart – Corrine Szabo
titles last updated July 15, 2008
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