Erica Cudeyro and Illustrator Lindsay L. Butler provide a colorful history of flight in America. The First Airplane is about the journey Orville and Wilbur Wright took, from their dream of flying to making flight a reality. It contains a small amount of facts, just enough for early school-aged children. The book carries a simple rhyme scheme to entice infants through preschool-aged children and to help with memorization of simple facts for early elementary school children. This book will captivate any child's imagination.