Cinebook Recounts: The Wright Brothers

Cinebook Recounts: The Wright Brothers, by J.P. Lefevre & Marcel Uderzo, Cinebook

AIRFIX MODEL aeroplane builders, aviator fans in general and history buffs stop here. A slim volume doing just what it says on the label, retelling the story of the Wilbur and Orville Wright, plane pioneers who made the first controlled, powered, human flight at the tail-end of 1903.

The background to their coming of age by way of their immigrant parentage, religious upbringing, Orville’s own inventive developments with regards to the printing press and their lengthier success in the bicycle trade proves interesting, and presumably helped formed their character; for it has to be said the book tends to be dry in tone as it progresses, and there’s little flavour of the brothers as people or consideration for what may have driven their need to succeed.

The bulk of the book reads as if taken from diaries via the facts and figures expressed and precise dates given, even if spoken by characters.

However, whether or not outside rivalries being portrayed to a greater extent in the book are real is something of a moot point, as that’s possibly not the intended main readership. Evoking the feel of the old Eagle comic or Look & Learn with its educational qualities it will most likely appeal to the modern generation’s version of that reader.

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