"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel....The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity....The paintings...add the necessary testure and tone to this marriage.This is vintage Provensen" – School Library Journal

Alice Provensen?and?Martin Provensen?were an?American?couple who illustrated more than 40?children's books?together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited. They?won the Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Flight.