By Tony Mitton
A whole plane journey in bouncy rhyme, with every part of the aircraft named and labeled for a child who wants the real words.
A crew of cheerful cartoon animals runs an airport. They check the bags, load the hold, fill the fuel tanks, taxi out, take off, hand out the drinks, and land again. The rhyme thumps along at a chantable pace, and the pictures do the real work: the cockpit, the landing gear, the wing flaps, the control tower are all labeled right there on the page, and there's a little picture dictionary at the back. It's the sibling book to Roaring Rockets, from the same pair.
This is the book that answers what a plane actually is. A child who loves planes usually wants the vocabulary before they want a story, and this hands them the whole aircraft, part by part, wrapped in a rhyme easy enough to memorize. It covers the widest slice of the plane-mad years - roughly three to six - and it's cheerful all the way through, with no tension anywhere in it.