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Jet Plane

How It Works

Jet Plane( )
Author: Macaulay, David
Keenan, Sheila
Series title:My Readers Ser.
ISBN:978-1-59643-767-8
Publication Date:Sep 2012
Publisher:Roaring Brook Press
Imprint:David Macaulay Studio
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $3.99
Book Description:

Go on an airplane ride.

It weighs as much as 100 elephants, but it can fly for hours. How does a jet do that? From the engine that provides the power and wings that lift the plane off the ground to the cockpit controls and passenger cabin, see how these modern marvels work and what makes them stay in the air.

Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Transportation / Aviation
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.01 x 8.28 x 0.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.176 Pounds
Author Biography
Macaulay, David (Author)
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.

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