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Jet plane how it works

Introduces young readers to the mechanical science of jet planes that recreates an airplane ride while explaining how powerful engines, specially designed wings, and cockpit controls work together to enable a jet's flight.

Main Author:	Macaulay, David.
Other Authors:	Keenan, Sheila.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : David Macaulay Studio, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	My readers
Subjects:	Jet planes > Juvenile nonfiction. Picture books for children.

Summary:	Introduces young readers to the mechanical science of jet planes that recreates an airplane ride while explaining how powerful engines, specially designed wings, and cockpit controls work together to enable a jet's flight.
Physical Description:	28 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781596437647 (hardcover) 1596437642 (hardcover) 9781596437678 (pbk.) 1596437677 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973. His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work. (Bowker Author Biography)

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