Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


Abuela
By: Arthur Dorros
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Astronauts Today
By: Rosanna Hansen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Astronauts Today is a journey into space exploration. With fun facts like what astronauts eat...

Kite Flying
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The young narrator describes how she and her family each contribute to a handsome kite which...

Rocket to the Moon
By: Lerryn Korda
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Lester explains the basics about the moon and space travel to Little Nye before they take off on...

The Airport Book
By: Lisa Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
To visit grandparents, a family travels to the airport, boards the plane, and flies to their...

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
By: Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
By 1909, Louis Bleriot's persistence had paid off: this Frenchman became the first aviator...

Zephyr Takes Flight
By: Steve Light
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Zephyr's imagination takes off when her family is too busy to play or watch her fly her model...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


Air Show
By: Treat Williams
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ellie and her brother accompany their pilot father in his airplane to an air show where they see...

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Two well known women sneak away from the White House for an aerial adventure in this handsomely...

Circle
By: Jeannie Baker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Each year, bar-tailed godwits undertake the longest unbroken migration of any bird, flying from...

Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Spare, poetic text and luminous, realistic illustrations chronicle the Apollo missions....

Flight: A Pop-Up Book of Aircraft
By: Robert Crowther
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, and pop-ups to manipulate, this fact-filled exploration of flying...

Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh
By: Robert Burleigh
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Charles Lindbergh was only 25 years old when he made his historic non-stop flight across the...

Floating in Space
By: Franklyn Branley, True Kelley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut? Wondered what it might be like to see the sun set...

Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
By: Louise Borden, Mary Kay Kroeger
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Bessie Coleman grew up picking cotton in Texas, but she aimed high -- soaring into history as...

Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight
By: Karyn Parsons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

Flying Machine (Eyewitness)
By: Andrew Nahum
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Give Me Wings
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Take flight with a bit of imagination and a varied collection of poems. Handsome illustrations...

Go for the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy, and the First Moon Landing
By: Chris Gall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A boy looking out his bedroom window into the night sky begins, “The moon is out tonight. In the...

How Do Birds Find Their Way?
By: Roma Gans
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Birds don't need maps! Many birds make long journeys twice each year as they migrate between...

Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight
By: Ryan Ann Hunter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This picture book traces flight from the era of prehistoric flying creatures to the future of...

Kids' Paper Airplane Book
By: Ken Blackburn, Jeff Lammers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Sophisticated children (or children with an adult) will appreciate the variety of aircraft...

Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot
By: Matthew Clark Smith
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Sophie admired Jean-Pierre Blanchard, the first man to cross the English Channel in a hot air...

Look to the Stars
By: Buzz Aldrin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin takes the reader on a journey through centuries of air and space...

Mae Among the Stars
By: Roda Ahmed
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A beautiful picture book for sharing, inspired by the life of the first African American woman...

Mae Jemison
By: Luke Collins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
An early biography of the first African-American female astronaut. This nonfiction book explores...

Out of This World: Poems and Facts About Space
By: Amy Sklansky
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Owly: Flying Lessons
By: Andy Runton
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee
By: Marissa Moss
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The true story of one of only two Chinese-American women to fly for the U.S. Air Force during...

Soar, Elinor!
By: Tami Lewis Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Elinor Smith was a girl whose dream of flying was realized in the 1920s, a time when girls and...

Tar Beach
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Cassie doesn't have to actually go to the beach; she's got her very own "tar...

The Adventures of Sparrowboy
By: Brian Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Mild-mannered paperboy Henry collides with a sparrow and turns into Sparrowboy just like his...

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont
By: Victoria Griffith
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee
By: Julie Leung
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military, was born fearless...

The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes
By: Doug Stillinger
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From very easy to more challenging, paper airplane folding is a craft that soars! Clear...

Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird's Amazing Journey
By: Robert Burleigh
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Follow a hummingbird’s amazing migration south for the winter, traveling as fast as 30 miles an...

Wind Flyers
By: Angela Johnson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A young African American boy tells the story of his great-great-uncle, who realized his dream of...

Wings
By: Christopher Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Stunning, bold collage illustrations carry the action in this reworking of the traditional Greek...

Wings
By: Sneed Collard
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Many creatures have wings: birds, bats, insects. How these amazing appendages work and how they...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By: Traci Sorell
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's...

Flying Machines
By: Nick Arnold
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Do you know how flight forces such as gravity, drag, thrust, and lift work? Kids who are raring...

Skywriting: Poems to Fly
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Poetry
In this picture-book anthology of 13 poems, celebrate the dramatic adventure of flight, from the...

Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
By: Nikki Grimes
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
After aviator Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman is lost in a plane crash, those who knew her celebrate...

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
By: Russell Freedman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Using excerpts from Wilbur's and Orville's journals and letters, young readers will find a...