Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Before Wilbur and Orville Wright, there was The Flying Man. Otto Lilienthal lived in Germany, and from a young age, he dreamed of soaring in the air like a bird. He and his brother, Gustav experimented with making wings to fly. Unsurprising, wings did not work, as he could not flap them quickly enough and
Animachines by Debora Pearson, illustrated by Nora Hilb (Annick Press, 2003) is a creative comparison book for very young children. On each page, there is an animal doing something as well as a vehicle of some sort acting in very much the same way. Each two-page spread features a large single verb: fly, stretch, dig,
For fun, I read my son Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. I loved this book as a child, and while I know my son is still too young to sit still (he’s just 18 months), I read it while he played. I still enjoy it, and I can hope my
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