BB is selected from thousands of candidates to train for a trip to Mars, but his first mission is to the Moon to give emergency aid.

A team of nineteenth-century American engineers builds a rocket to the moon in this visionary novel from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days During the Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club delighted themselves by designing artillery the likes of which the world had never seen. But when the South eventually surrenders, the gun club languishes, until its president, Impey Barbicane, conceives...

While other birds are seeing the world, George the duck is content to stay at home--or so it seems until he confesses the truth to Pascal, a visiting bear.

A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.

Follows a baby bird on its first flight, one that starts cautiously and ends with delight.

Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle, " enrolls in flight school.

Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.

Tragedy strikes when an egg, eager to fly like birds, airplanes, and insects, steps off of a tall tower.

With help from his friend Otto the robot, Pip the mouse tries to fly.