One Fine Day: A Radio Play

The Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on December 17, 1903, takes center stage in One Fine Day: A Radio Play by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illus. by Bill Farnsworth. The colloquial script makes it accessible for students to dramatize (""Orville: (Excited) How far did I go? How far? Tell me./ Wilbur: Don't know yet, till I figure it. But, oh, my, you flew right off, Orville. I think our pa's going to be mighty proud of you""). Farnsworth's oil on linen portraits strike just the right balance between realism and fancy; a slight smudging at the edges create the feeling of photographs taken with a soft-lens camera and convey the sense of a cream coming true.