Anthologies

Wild Blue: Stories of Survival From Air and Space

Information   Introduction   Teacher Resources   Cover Illustration

Information

• First edition:
  • Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000, USA.
    • Edited by David Fisher and William Garvey
    • Part of the Adrenaline Series, edited by Clint Willis
• Contains:
  • Going Solo

Introduction

This is from the introduction to the excerpt from Going Solo:

"Before writing his famous children's books, Roald Dahl (1916-1990) served as a British fighter pilot in World War II. After surviving a crash in Libya, Dahl was ordered to fly one of the new Hurricane fighters to Greece to join a small group of hopelessly outnumbered RAF pilots. Dahl had never flown in combat; worse, he'd never flown a modern fighter plane at all."

Teacher Resources

• Going Solo
  • Reading Quiz
    • Online reading quiz with questions from the book

Cover Illustration

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