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Planes Fly!
By LYON, George Ella
- ISBN
- 978-1-4424-5025-7 978-1-4424-5026-4
- Publisher
- S & S Atheneum Richard Jackson Bks.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2013 | Nonfiction
PreS-K—Lyon takes off to the sky with this exuberant book. Jaunty, bouncing-off-the-tongue rhyming text names aircraft parts, lists different kinds of planes, and describes passenger air-travel experiences, repeating the upbeat refrain, "Planes fly!" throughout. Wiggins's retro-style illustrations amplify t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2013
Lyon packs an impressive dose of aeronautical vocabulary into her succinct survey of "bi-planes / tri-planes / gotta-love-the-sky planes. / Prop planes / jet planes / how-fast-can-you-get planes" -- a vocabulary that's neatly explicated in Wiggins's sweeping spreads in which, for example, he underlines the loopy acrobatics of three "prop planes" with the straight contrail line of a needle-nosed jet. Meanwhi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
