Lacey, Saskia How to Build
a Plane: A Soaring Adventure of Mechanics, Teamwork and Friendship, 64 pgs.
Illustrated by Martin Sodomka Walter
Foster Jr. , 2015 (Quatro). $14.95 PICTURE BOOK
Content: G.
Eli is a curious
mouse and wants to fly. He gets his
friends to help him build a plane and takes it out for a ride. He almost crashes the plane, so the friends
make some adjustments and take it out for a fun flight in which Eli is happy he
is flying.
This sounds like a little kid
book, but there are a lot of detailed illustrations that show the different
parts of real airplanes with sidebars and explanations. This is a mix of nonfiction and fiction. My five year old told me to stop reading to
him about the plane parts because he wanted to know what happened to the mouse
and his friends, so I’m not sure who the intended audience is for this
book. The illustrations and plane
explanations are fantastic and explained the parts in a simple and direct way,
but I think the reader who would be interested in the nonfiction part would be
older and they would tire of the mouse and his friends part of the story. Interesting idea, but I’m not even sure who
to recommend it for.
EL (K-3)-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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