Thanks to osprey_archer 's Newbery project, I got out The Flying Winged Girl of Knossos (thanks for catching that light_of_summer !) originally published in 1933 and reissued in 2017 by Betsy Bird, who's served on the Newbery Committee, reviewed books for Kirkus, blogs about children's literature, and has in fact written her own middle grade novel (Long Road to the Circus --I haven't read it).

It's easy to see why Betsy Bird and osprey_archer loved this story: it's great fun and excellently told. ...