Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

drawings, for elementary school children. Includes
instructions and an actual size pattern for building a
model Wright Flyer out of styrofoam.
Reynolds, James J., and others. The Wright Brothers. In
their Short Stories of Famous Men, New York: Noble
and Noble, 1946, pp. 279—285.
Included also in revised editions, 1948 and 1953,
pp. 251—257.
Reynolds, Quentin. Wright Brothers. In Evans, Pauline
R., ed., Best Book of Heroes and Heroines, Garden City,
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964, pp. 192—205.
. The Wright Brothers, Pioneers of American
Aviation. Illustrated by Jacob Landau. New York:
Random House [1950], 183 pp., +illus. (Landmark
Books. [10]).
Dramatized and produced as phonodisc in 1953 by
Howard Tooley, Enrichment Records, LLP 104
(3104B), 1s, 10 in., 33-1/3 rpm.
Rhodes, James A. The Wright Brothers. In his Teenage
Hall of Fame, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960, pp.
57—59.
Romer, A. Ralph, and Romer, Margaret. The Wright
Brothers. In their Sky Travel, New York: Rand McNally
& Company, 1929, pp. 146—154.
Rosenblum, Richard. Illustrated by the author. Wings:
The Early Years of Aviation. New York: Four Winds
Press, 1980, 64 pp., +illus.
Brief account for older children of the history of
aviation from the first flight of the Wright brothers in
1903 to Charles Lindbergh s first solo flight across the
Atlantic in 1927. Includes an index.
Ross, Frank, Jr. The First Heavier-than-Air Flying
Machine 1903. In his Trail Blazers of the Sky, Santa
Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1945, pp. 3—10, +illus.
Sanford, Chester M., and Owen, Grace A. Wilbur and
Orville Wright. In their Modern Americans, New York:
Laurel Book Co., 1921, pp. 99—107.
Schirmer, Mathilda, ed. Conquerors of the Air, Orville
and Wilbur Wright. In Builders for Progress, Chicago:
Beckley-Cardy, 1950, pp. 145—162, +illus.
Schulz, Walter A. Illustrations by Janet Schulz. Will and
Orv. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1991, 48 pp., +illus.
Account of the Dec. 17, 1903, flight of the Wright
brothers as witnessed by a young boy, Johnny Moore,
an actual person but with fictional conversation.
Juvenile Publications
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Shea, George. Pictures by Don Bolognese. First Flight:
The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers. New
York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1997. [An I can
read chapter book], 48 pp., +illus.
Children s story of the friendship of the Wright
brothers and Tom Tate of Kitty Hawk, an actual person
who first met the Wright brothers in 1900 when he
was 12 years old and later witnessed the first flight.
Sobol, Donald J. The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.
Illustrated by Stewart Mackenzie, New York: T. Nelson,
1961, 143 pp., +illus.
Reprinted: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Scholastic Book Services, 1965.
Southworth, Gertrude V. D., and Southworth, James V.
D. The Wright Brothers. In their Heroes of Our America,
Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Co., 1952, pp.
329—333.
Stein, R. Conrad. Illustrated by Len W. Meents. Story of
Flight at Kitty Hawk. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1981, 31
pp., +illus.
For intermediate readers, a brief biography of the
two famous bicycle makers from Dayton, Ohio, focusing
on their efforts to build and fly an airplane, starting
with kites and gliders, to the concept of wing warping
and their first successful powered flight, to the Wright
Flyer s place in the National Air and Space Museum.
Includes an index and suggestions for further reading.
Stevenson, Augusta. Wilbur and Orville Wright, Boys
with Wings. Illustrated by Paul Laune. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, [1951], 192 pp., +illus. (The Childhood
of Famous Americans Series).
Slightly revised edition, illustrated by Robert
Doremus, published in 1959.
Sun, Shi. [Wright Brothers] Laite Xiongdi. Beijing,
China: Mainland Xinhua chubanshe, 1988, 180 pp.
Brief biography of the Wright brothers, secondary
school level. Includes a table of important dates in
their lives.
In Chinese.
Sutton, Felix. We Were There at the First Airplane
Flight. Historical consultant: Grover Loening. Illustrated
by Laszlo Matulay New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960,
179 pp. (We Were There Books, 28).
Tharp, Edgar. Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright; Man
Learns to Fly. In his Giants of Invention, New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1963, pp. 101—103. (Illustrated True
Books).