Airplanes
PreSchool-Grade 2—Airplanes soar off the pages in this introduction to flying machines. Descriptive, rhyming text is succinct, straightforward, and instructive. Planes of different sizes, with different engines and with different purposes, glide, turn, dive, and race within the artwork. While there are many picture books about airplanes, this one's illustrations set it apart. Halsey and Addy's intermixing of etchings, drawings, and clip art results in changing settings for each plane. Most pages are spreads that run horizontally; a couple of them are printed vertically. Details such as a pirate plane, a bunny crop duster, an outline of the Statue of Liberty, and Santa invite closer inspection. This title is a fine selection for one-on-one sharing, especially with aircraft fanatics.—Lynn K. Vanca, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Richfield, OHCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.