The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 (Picture Puffin Books) by Alice Provensen

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight. “Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot’s first experience of an airship”--Kirkus Reviews