Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight

Captain Arsenio was a curious man who liked, more than anything, to tinker and explore. One day in 1782, he decided that he would put his unusual skills to work in a most ambitious way: he would build a flying machine.

Despite a hodgepodge of materials (and a total unawareness of the laws of physics), Captain Arsenio aimed to get his feet off the ground and his head in the clouds — temporarily, at least. But would any of his crazy inventions ever achieve flight?

In this hilarious fictional account, Pablo Bernasconi imagines a legend in the making — a retired cheesemaker and scuba diver turned inventor who sets off to fly with the birds, in spite of himself.

• Author
• Pablo Bernasconi

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 40

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780618507498

• Genres
• childrens

• Release date
• 2005