Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine

By Kathryn Lasky

Humphrey and Albert think Princess Briar Rose's party is bo-o-oring --after all, everyone falls asleep! But when the brothers are the first to awake nearly one hundred years later, they realize the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152162356
• ISBN13: 9780152162351
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Fun take on a fairy tale

This was a fun story to read to kids. I bought it because my son loves anything that flies and so the title intrigued me. When I read it to my 6 year old son, we happened to have our best friends in town who have 5 and 7 year old daughters. All of them loved it - it was definitely not boring!

science lesson

This is a picture book fairy tale much like the story of Sleeping Beauty. Albert and Humphrey and two brothers who have been invited to the Princess Briar Rose's birthday party. They think it will be boring and they don't want to go. Their parents make them anyway. While at the party a mean witch cast a spell that makes everyone sleep for 100 years. Albert and Humphrey are the first to wake up and go looking for a price to break the spell by kissing the princess. Instead of a price they find a scientist named Daniel Bernoulli. He used his invention of the flying machine to get back to the palace and break the spell. The scientist in the book was based on a real person named Daniel Bernoulli. In the back of the book is a page of authors notes. In the notes she tells more about the scientist and his work. I would recommend this book to kids ages 7-10. The book is a picture book but there is a lot to learn from it.