Up and away!: how two brothers invented the hot-air balloon, hardcover/jason henry

It will .

sweep readers away.

-- Kirkus Reviews Henrys lush, digital artwork depicts the splendors of eighteenth-century France .

a good addition to units on aviation and inventors.

-- Booklist More than a century before the Wright Brothers invented their plane, Joseph andtienne Montgolfier sent a flying machine into the skies--a hot-air balloon with three animals in the basket.

Go up, up, and away with them on their first, magical journey Back in 1782, in Ard che, France, lived Joseph Montgolfier, a dreamer and an inventor who liked to learn about how everything worked.

When one day a gust of wind blew his papers into the fireplace, he noticed that something lifted the pieces into the air--and he realized that heat could make things rise.

With the help of his brother,tienne, he began to experiment .

and created a new kind of flying machine: a hot-air balloonThis beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of how the balloon came to be, King Louis XVIs visit to see it fly, and the three animals--a rooster, a duck, and a sheep--who became its very first passengers.