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Take to the skies with the tale of Sophie Blanchard a woman meant for the air as she discovers the incomparable sensation of flight. Behold the story of Sophie Blanchard, a woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, "balloonomania" has fiercely gripped the nation . . . but all of the pioneering aeronauts are men. The job of shattering that myth falls to a most unlikely figure: a shy girl from a seaside village, entirely devoted to her dream of flight. Sophie is not the first woman to ascend in a balloon, nor the first woman to accompany an aeronaut on a trip, but she will become the first woman to climb to the clouds and steer her own course.
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Lighter Than Air, Matthew Clark Smith, Matt Tavares
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Lighter Than Air
- Subtitle
- Sophie Blanchard, The First Woman Pilot
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Matthew Clark Smith, Matt Tavares
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press (MA)
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 32
- ISBN10
- 0763677329
- ISBN13
- 9780763677329
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Children's Books, True Stories, Biographies, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, USA, Children's Books, France, Biographies, Juvenile Nonfiction, Technology, Space, Feminism, Europe, Aviation, Juvenile Fiction, Picture Books, Girls, Sports Biographies, 18th century, Engineering, Means of Transport, Moon, Robotics
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Take to the skies with the tale of Sophie Blanchard a woman meant for the air as she discovers the incomparable sensation of flight. Behold the story of Sophie Blanchard, a woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, "balloonomania" has fiercely gripped the nation . . . but all of the pioneering aeronauts are men. The job of shattering that myth falls to a most unlikely figure: a shy girl from a seaside village, entirely devoted to her dream of flight. Sophie is not the first woman to ascend in a balloon, nor the first woman to accompany an aeronaut on a trip, but she will become the first woman to climb to the clouds and steer her own course.