Hot Air:The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-airl Balloon Ride

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman was discussed in our class for in the historical fiction genre presentation. I thought it was a good book when being described so I decided to read it. The book is written to be geared towards children ages 4-8. The picture book is about the first hot-air balloon flight that could have happened but, probably not because the first flight in this book is taken by a duck, a sheep, and a rooster. After reading it myself, I still really enjoyed it. The pictures are enjoyable, and at some points it is the pictures that tell the story. The back page is very informative because it gives some brief history of Montgolfiers' Balloons. I think that anyone could incorporate this story into their classroom when discussing the first flights in history or maybe when they are trying to have students change history or write a story about something that happened in history to something in their imagination or something they would think could happen, like in this story.