Savage, Stephen Little Plane Learns to Write. PICTURE BOOK.
Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan), 2017. $16.99
Little Plane is at school to
learn how to be a skywriter. He practices the arcs and dives needed to make
letters but the loopity-loops make him dizzy so his words do not look right.
Finally at night he sees the moon, carefully "traces" around it and
makes an O! Finally his words look right--Little Plane has learned to write!
My
kiddo loves planes so I had high hopes for this book but it really falls flat.
Books can be too simple and this one is. The illustrations do not impress and
the text is too elementary. The great point of the the story is that readers
will recognize the misspelled words as Little Plane is learning to write, but
the readers who this story will most appeal to will not have reading/writing
skills themselves yet. Kids can still appreciate this story for the cute red
plane, but there are many many better books out there.
Pre-K, EL (K-3)--OPTIONAL. Reviewer: TC
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