Burleigh uses short sentences to recount the historic first airplane flight across the Atlantic which transformed a 25-year-old pilot into a hero in 1927. The terse, present-tense narrative conveys some elements of the risk Lindbergh took and the courage he exhibited only 24 years after the Bright Brothers successfully flew the first airplane. Wimmer's full-color artwork furnishes suitably heroic perspectives illustrating what was an exciting achievement and can now be relived as such through this gripping account. (Ages 5-10)

Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Flight. Loneliness. Fear. Danger. Courage. Charles Lindbergh considered all these things and more when he set out for Paris on the morning of May 20, 1927, with only two compasses and the stars for his guides. Experience all the drama of Lindbergh's history-making flight with startling intimacy as you travel along with the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, and follow the courage and endurance of one man who dared to make his dream come true.

"(A) glorious re-creation of an epic adventure."--Publishers Weekly
"Brings new life to one of the stories of the century."--Kirkus Reviews