Very good book. It does go beyond the Wright brothers into the jet age. Recommended.

I LOVED this book because it was very Very VERY informative. It had TONS of information in it. It was about the evolution of flying machines. In this book Orville's and Wilbur's sister explained the evolution of flying machines and how they worked. For example, she explained thrust and drag. She also explained the failures and successes that all of the major aircraft inventors (mostly the Wright Brothers).

Another fun edition of science comics, sure to delight and enthuse kids who are interested in flight/planes! A LOT of technical information and text packed into this book. It would benefit from subtitles, chapters, or even more of a narrative. It bounced around quite a bit after the Wright brothers first flight was depicted. For those reasons I’d put this in middle school libraries, unless a younger kid was extremely interested.

In this volume we follow the famous aviators, the Wright Brothers, from their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, to the fields of North Carolina where they planned to make their famous flights. This is the fifth of the Science Comics, an action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers. Make sure to pick it up!

http://openbooksociety.com/article/sc...Science Comics: Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers SoaredBy Alison Wilcus, Molly BrooksISBN 978-1-62672-139-5Brought to you by OBS Reviewer ScottReview:The latest installment of Science Comics – Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared takes the series to new heights (literarily and figuratively). This volume of the graphic novel series explores the historical nature of this remarkable subject. Told from the perspective of Katherine Wright, th...

Not my favorite Science Comic. It's very informative, and I loved that Wilgus put a little focus on Katherine Wright, Wilbur and Orville's sister. But Wilgus is trying to cover both the history of early aviation and the scientific principles behind fight, and I just don't think 115 pages is enough room for that. Early aviation ends up being boiled down to the Wright brothers and also one or two others, and the scientific content tends to be infodumped in big walls of text. I think Wilgus could h...

Too much detail, too much disassociated trivia. I wanted to like it, because it was potentially interesting to learn how much little sister Katharine Wright helped the brothers. But I dunno, I just couldn't follow all the snips of history. Maybe my failing because I'm more accustomed to narrative, but I have very much enjoyed other Science Comics so I guess I recommend this only to big kids who are really into aviation history.

The graphic novel, “Flying Machines” by Alison Wilgus and Molly Brooks, is a very informative, interesting, and educational story (more like a lecture) about how the Wright brothers learned to fly, and where they got their inspiration. It begins with Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright brothers, teaching some students how flying machines have changed how we travel, fight, and observe our landscape. The narrator, Katharine, is somewhat biased towards her brothers throughout the story, claiming...

Join Katherine Wright, younger sister of the famous aviators, on a journey through the development of heavier than air flying vehicles. Katherine takes readers back in time and shows them the big names in aviation from more than a century ago. Penaud, Lilienthal, Ader, Voisin, Bleriot, Santos-Dumont, Curtis, Bell, Selfridge, and Whittle are all included, but she focuses on her brothers. The illustrations show the various gliders and planes that the inventors tried - with details about their size...

Great book to learn some of the background of the first flight. Really makes you appreciate the scientific study the Wright Brothers went through. Their sister narrates this book and I didn’t realize the role she played in the first flight.

I have always thought of the Wright Brothers as tinkerers, not engineers or scientists. This book lays that misconception to rest as it lays out their scientific method behind developing their aircraft. I didn't really understand the digression at the end into Frank Whittle's development of a jet engine. It didn't hurt the book, but I would have rather had more pages about the Wrights.

Wilgus, Alison Science Comics: Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared, 110 pgs. GRAPHIC. First Second (Roaring Brook), 2017. $13.Told in graphic novel format we meet the little sister of the Wright brothers, Katherine, who is now full grown. She acts as a guide to readers who discover the how the brothers were first interested in flying, how flying machines evolved through new thoughts, ideas and discoveries in the science of flight, the flights of her brothers, and the flying community...

Educational graphic novel about history and the story of flight. Writer Alison Wilgus effectively distills the physics and mechanics that make flight possible (Molly Brooks' illustrations were particularly helpful to this end) and uses the Wright Brothers' sister (Katherine) to humanize the story's key players.

Entertaining and accessible, Science Comics: Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared provides an enjoyable introduction to the story of the Wright Brothers and their sister Katherine, who serves as the book's narrator. The illustrations are pleasantly well-executed and help to present complex aeronautical concepts in an understandable manner.For some reason the story of Frank Whittle is incongruously shoehorned into the end of the Wright narrative, but the book warrants no other signific...

The idea for a comic series dedicated to science topics is a good one, and this one should be popular with middle grade readers, given the keen interest so many youngsters have about flight. The topic explored here is, indeed, flight and the many efforts of the Wright brothers to design a machine that would allow humans to fly. The story of the men and their many experiments and designs is told by their younger sister, Katharine, who gives insight into their struggles and successes and some of t...

I don't know what I expected since this series is extremely educational, but this book was a little too dry and technical for my enjoyment. However, as a teacher I am pleased that such a topic is surrounded by bright appealing pictures, so that students interested in applied science and all the specifics of flying will have this attractive book to read- thus the third star. But, flying machines, what a wonder!

This was a tad too technical for my taste. I'm more tend to like nonfiction when it doesn't seem like I'm reading a textbook or a manual. I've got to give props for how they handled dispensing all the necessary information AND also spotlighting a figure who doesn't get credit in the story of the Wright brothers (at least in the others I've heard)- their younger sister Katherine who serves as the narrator in this latest installment of Science Comics.

PlotKatharine Wright, Wilbur and Orville's little sister, narrates this graphic novel as a sort of excited little omniscient ghost, wandering through panels and pointing out all the cool things that were happening. The story of the brothers begins in 1878 when their father brings home a wooden French spinning toy called a "bat" that interested the brothers into their adult lives. The history and science of other types of flying inventions and how they worked, or didn't, is looked at as Katharine...

These books are fascinating reads, but highly technical, too. I’m surprised by the text complexity because I didn’t realize they were aimed at an upper elementary age student. Perhaps the cover is somewhat misleading. I love the concept and I know if I find the right student to read and enjoy them, they will become popular, but I am also realistic in knowing they will not be for everyone. I enjoyed that this one is told by the youngest Wright family member: sister Katherine. Lots of fantastic in...

Really fun addition to the Science Comics line. The art was tonally perfect and very enjoyable. I also enjoyed the use of the sister as a narrator, it grounded the story and information well.