This tells of the day in 1929 when Gil Wickstrom, riding old Princess on his father's tobacco farm in Mississippi, heard and saw a biplane land on the next farm and Gil rode as fast as he could to get there. This was the first airplane he'd ever seen, though he'd read a lot about flying in the papers and everyone knew that Charles Lindbergh had flown nonstop from New York to Paris two years before. And when Gil reached the plane's landing spot, there was Lindbergh himself, climbing out. This thrill of a lifetime for young Gil is caught in this simple and evocative story for which Tom Allen has made beautifully and technically accurate illustrations that enhance the wonder and excitement of the early days of flying.
