Margarita Engle

The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar

Illustrator: Palacios, Sara

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Produktbeschreibung

Six months before the famous Wright Brothers' first flight, Aaida de Acosta became the first woman to fly a powered aircraft. In this beautiful picture book, award-winners Engle and Palacios tell her inspiring true story. Full color.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 208mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781481445023
• ISBN-10: 1481445022
• Artikelnr.: 48518783

Autorenporträt

Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima’s Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand ; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com. Sara Palacios is the recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for  Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match and the illustrator of several other picture books, including A Song of Frutas, The Flying Girl, and Martina Has Too Many Tías. Sara graduated with a degree in graphic design and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. A native of Mexico, Sara now lives in San Francisco. Visit her at SaraPalaciosIllustrations.com.