With school getting out, there's lots of travel on the horizon, and air travel is stressful for lots of adults. Books about the process can help kids understand what's going on, and provide a sense of control and familiarity with the system, even if the adults are still longing for those mini-bottles.
The Airport Book
Lisa Brown
ISBN: 9781626720916
Really detailed comic-strip format (almost reminds me of a Richard Scarry book) follows a family (and a "lost" stuffed Monkey) through the process of getting to, through, and waiting in an airport, then getting onto, into, and settled into a flight, and then back out the other side. VERY detailed, and very darkly humorous about the lines and the waiting and the boredom.
Airport
Byron Barton
ISBN: 0690041691
Same idea as the first book, but much more simple. We also have more impressive clear blocky illustrations of airplanes, cockpits, and radio-control towers in this book, which leaves a more powerful visual impression. This simplified version really streamlines the human-centered portion of the process.
Miss Mouse Takes Off
Jan Ormerod
ISBN: 0688178715
From the perspective of a stuffed mouse lovey, we get the same process one final time. This time we really feel the boredom and time spent in the air, as well as the ample opportunities for things to get lost or mislaid along the way. We also get our first view of an airplane bathroom, which was VERY interesting to the kids. Details were about midway between The Airport Book and Airport, which works well for a final impression.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
New Arrivals: Picture Book: The Airport Book, by Lisa Brown
The Airport Book
Lisa Brown
ISBN: 9781626720916
Diverse cast of characters progress through a trip by airplane.
This is a fun little picture book, with scenes very similar to the Richard Scarry "busy book" style of lots of vignettes scattered throughout the page, all of which progress through the story in the background behind the narrated main story.
Another excellent resource for storytime, and one I'll pair up with Miss Mouse Takes Off (Jan Ormerod) and hope to find a third that focuses on the travel aspect instead of on the "oooh lookit the cool plane" approach.
If you use this for storytime, be aware that there's really no good way to incorporate all the back-stories into the front-loaded narrative, and that's a bit of a shame, but at least it gets the book in front of them, and they can always check it out afterwards and learn about all the sub-stories at home with their parents.
Lisa Brown
ISBN: 9781626720916
Diverse cast of characters progress through a trip by airplane.
This is a fun little picture book, with scenes very similar to the Richard Scarry "busy book" style of lots of vignettes scattered throughout the page, all of which progress through the story in the background behind the narrated main story.
Another excellent resource for storytime, and one I'll pair up with Miss Mouse Takes Off (Jan Ormerod) and hope to find a third that focuses on the travel aspect instead of on the "oooh lookit the cool plane" approach.
If you use this for storytime, be aware that there's really no good way to incorporate all the back-stories into the front-loaded narrative, and that's a bit of a shame, but at least it gets the book in front of them, and they can always check it out afterwards and learn about all the sub-stories at home with their parents.
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