Allan Drummond

In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.

Illustrations and rhythmic text tell how the famous engineer, Casey Jones, risks his own life to save others.

"Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity is a defense of liberalism, the political philosophy which holds that governments should be established for the protection of individual liberty. Since the seventeenth century the bond between liberalism and religion has been strong. Where and when that bond has been severed, liberalism has withered and religion has become tyrannical. Although libertarians, free market economists, and the Christian right often disagree about the nature of man and the nature of the universe, this work provides a philosophically and historically coherent account of their shared commitment to limited government and individual liberty."--Jacket.

When Roger rides his bike backwards down the slide and crashes, the Pee Wee Scouts rush to his rescue. Consequently, Mrs. Peters chooses bicycle safety for their next badge. But when the scouts decide to make and sell a cookbook to raise money to buy bicycles for needy children, things don't go as planned.

Chronicles the experiences of a Model T Ford with a series of owners from 1909 to the present day.

The author retells a story heard as a child, one of many invented to explain the landscape on willow pattern china, popular for the last 200 years. In this, two young Chinese lovers are punished by one's cruel mandarin father.