Flowers in the Sky

Toulouse-Lautrec

Our Dynamic World (Bk. 5)

Dr. Seuss

Tegan and Sara: Junior High

Tales From Ten Poets

Letter and Spirit

Now Let Me Fly

"Far away, far away,
Up past the clouds.
High away, fly away,
And never come down."

More than anything, Bessie Coleman wants to fly. As a small child working in a Waxahachie, Texas, cotton field, she likes to imagine she's a bird, getting ready to spread her wings and fly away. Then, when Bessie learns about the black fighter pilots of World War I, she gets the idea that maybe she really can fly. But no one in the United States will teach her how to fly a plane because she's black and a woman. So Bessie goes to France, where she becomes the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license -- and where she finally has the chance to soar with the birds.

In lyrical prose, Lynn Joseph tells the inspirational true story of aviator Bessie Coleman. Yvonne Buchanan's buoyant watercolor paintings remind us that sometimes even seemingly unattainable dreams are within our reach.

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Flowers in the Sky

Lynn Joseph, 2013

Toulouse-Lautrec

Abbey Campbell Cook, Diane Cook, Yan Thomas, 2002

Our Dynamic World (Bk. 5)

Patrick O'dwyer, 2004

Dr. Seuss

Stuart A. Kallen, P.M. Boekhoff, 2002

Tegan and Sara: Junior High

Tillie Walden, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin, 2023

Tales From Ten Poets

Harrison S. Morris, Harrison Smith Morris, 2020

Letter and Spirit

Anna M. Richards, Anna Matlack Richards, 1891

Now Let Me Fly

Ronald Wimberly, Brahm Revel, 2023