# The Glorious Flight

**Author:** Alice Provensen
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**First published:** 1983
**Page count:** 48
**Genre:** Juvenile Nonfiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781101643716`
**ISBN-10:** `1101643714`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-glorious-flight
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1984 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1984 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1984 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1984 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

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