Burleigh uses short sentences to recount the historic first airplane flight across the Atlantic which transformed a 25-year-old pilot into a hero in 1927. The terse, present-tense narrative conveys some elements of the risk Lindbergh took and the courage he exhibited only 24 years after the Bright Brothers successfully flew the first airplane. Wimmer's full-color artwork furnishes suitably heroic perspectives illustrating what was an exciting achievement and can now be relived as such through this gripping account. (Ages 5-10)