[PDF] My Hot Air Balloon Ride eBook

Author : Marjorie Priceman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481439057

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The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket? Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783, this si the story of (PERHAPS) the bravest collection of flyers the world has ever seen, as (SORT OF) told to Marjorie Priceman.

Author : Jill Atkins
Publisher : Maverick Arts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848867883

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A charming animal adventure story that shows how an act of kindness can be returned when in need. Filled with beautiful illustrations and details that children can search for. One day, Raccoon helps an eagle chick back into their nest and it makes Raccoon wish she could fly. She goes to sleep and flies in her dreams. Suddenly, she is woken by a noise – it is an amazing hot air balloon. It lands and she sees an opportunity for adventure. She climbs in and nibbles away the ropes. Soon she is flying! What an adventure but Raccoon soon realizes that she is not actually sure how she can get down... Luckily, the mother eagle sees her and enlists the help of other birds to drop stones in the basket until the hot air balloon gently drifts down. Raccoon thinks she is finished with adventure – until she sees a speed boat! This simple but stunning book is perfect for storytime. There are so many details that can be pointed out and discussed. A real treasure of a book.

Author : Jean Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Dial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Balloon ascensions
ISBN : 9780803722583

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In this story based on true events, a thirteen-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.

Author : Matthew Olshan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0374329540

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A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.

Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : Silver Dolphin Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684127521

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Go on a magical adventure in this fun and playful story by Margaret Wise Brown, best-selling author of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Travel on a magical adventure with a little dog in The Noon Balloon, from best-selling children's book author Margaret Wise Brown. Beautifully illustrated, this lyrical text will be a soothing bedtime favorite.

Author : Nancy Abruzzo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780890134757

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For ages 4-8. Pop Flop is up and away in a big balloon high in the sky! It is Balloon Fiesta time and the sky is filled with hot-air balloons of all shapes and colours. Look, a huge bumble bee balloon! And there's a giant cat and a balloon like the planet earth! Pop Flop looks down from his lofty ride and sees his friends Mary Pat and Rico waving. Pop Flop's great balloon adventure begins on a chilly October morning: Get up! It's time to see the balloons! Soon there's fire in the sky like dragon's breath as the first hot-air balloons take to the skies: it's the dawn patrol! Mary Pat begs her father to take her up but instead she sends Pop Flop. "He can see the whole world now!"

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307908704

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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author : Cesare U.S. Army
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781981653287

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Back to Serve is a fictional memoir about a soon-to-be-retired army captain, Nico Corretti, who after a career in the military is ready to begin his civilian life with his family. But first, he must out-process and then drive halfway across the country to get home, during which he has an improbable encounter with a Russian woman who informs him that his safety and his postservice stability may be in jeopardy. On the long drive home, he considers the plausibility of her claim and reflects on his past and future.Once home, he relishes the quality time with his family, which includes visiting his father in his hometown. But afterward, he discovers the limited employment opportunities in the slow recovery years after the Great Recession. He undergoes an extended unemployment period before anxiously and dutifully taking a government-contract position abroad, which turns out to be more perilous than he had originally been briefed. And the mysterious Russian woman he met may lead him to some of the answers he was searching for, as well as to some dangers and desires that he wasn't. Upon completion of his contract job in Europe, he enjoys a well-deserved respite at home. But it's short lived, as a swell of terrorist attacks against the United States require (or demand) more of his military service. Torn between being there for his family and his duty to his country, Captain Corretti is coldly reminded that the two actually are mutually inclusive. He's sent back to a familiar place, the Middle East, and in the process, he may be able to avenge the soldiers he had lost under his command. But he'll need to reach deeper within himself than he ever has before in order to succeed on the battlefield and in life.

Author : Buffy Silverman
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541505972

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Hot air balloons are huge and colorful. They're lots of fun to watch. But how do they fly? And how do people control where the hot air balloon goes? Read this book to find out!