Wright Brothers and Flight

Science Discoveries

by Steve Parker

-- Clear and concise biographies of the world's most important and influential scientists -- Traces the development of revolutionary ideas and inventions that continue to shape the way we live -- Complemented by full-color paintings, drawings, and photographs This fact-filled book captures the life and times of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two inventive brothers whose interest in aviation prompted them to build the world's first power-driven airplane.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.

Reviews

[Evan F · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this this book a lot it had a lot of background information and details. It had many photos throughout the book and showed how the wright brothers made their plane fly. Overall i would give this book a 4.g