Title Amazing Australians in their flying machines / Prue & Kerry Mason ; illustrations by Tom Jellett

Published Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2017 © 2017

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W'PONDS CRC	629.13092 Mas/Aai		AVAILABLE
MELB CRC	629.13092 Mas/Aai		AVAILABLE
W'BOOL CRC	629.13092 Mas/Aai		AVAILABLE

Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations, portraits ; 27 x 26 cm regular print Series Premier's Reading Challenge. 3-4 Contents 15 April 1851: Dr William Bland -- 12 November 1894: Lawrence Hargrave -- 5 December 1909: George Taylor -- 12 November 1914: Richard Williams -- 10 December 1919: Ross Macpherson Smith -- 12 April 1921: Bert Hinkler -- 5 December 1921: Norman Brearley -- 17 May 1928: John Flynn -- 1932: Nancy Bird -- 7 November 1935: Charles Kingsford Smith -- Australian Aviation Today -- Authors' Note Summary This book shares how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away. Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. This book tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever Analysis Australian juvenile Nonfiction Notes Includes illustrations on endpapers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 30) and index Audience For secondary school age Notes Shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Award 2018 Subject Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Australia. Aeronautics -- Australia -- History -- Juvenile fiction. Aeronautics -- Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature. Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Juvenile literature. Air pilots -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Air pilots -- Australia -- Juvenile literature. Air pilots -- Australia. Flight -- History -- Juvenile fiction. Aeronautics -- Australia -- History. Flight -- History -- Juvenile literature. Flight -- History. Air pilots -- Australia -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Picture books. Genre/Form Biographies. Fiction. Author Jellett, Tom, illustrator Kerry, Mason, author ISBN 9781922244635

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