I Am an Airplane

by Ace Landers, Tom LaPadula (Illustrator)

Overview

Learn all about the hard-working flying machines at the airport in a board book shaped like a real airplane!

I am an airplane.I work at an airport.Readers may want to bring their luggage for this fun and sturdy board book shaped like an airplane! Read along as airplanes of all shapes, sizes, and abilities prepare for takeoff.Little aviation enthusiasts will love seeing this powerful plane in action in this latest book in the bestselling I Am a Truck series!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338334876
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/09/2019
Pages:	8
Sales rank:	538,692
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Thomas "Tom" LaPadula is an author and illustrator. He has been illustrating national and international magazines, advertising agencies, and children's books. Tom graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA and earned his MFA from Syracuse University. He lives in New York City.
Ace Landers has written several books for children, including Hot Wheels: Double Duel and Hot Wheels: Shark Attack. He lives in New York City with his family.

Editorial Reviews

2019-05-26
This brief board book explains four different types of aircraft with short descriptions of each.

This quick, airplane-shaped read with glossy, thick board pages takes to the skies with surprisingly detailed illustrations of both familiar and lesser-known planes. The four shown—an airliner, a floatplane, a reconnaissance plane, and a light aircraft—are certainly high-interest for many young readers. The illustrations are vibrant and incredibly detailed, lifting this book into preschool territory: The ground crew's tiny batons, the details on the luggage carrier and ramp right down to the levers and connectors, even the mini "caution" tag on the Air Force plane is legible. The colors are rich and vibrant, including a green patchwork of fields and the soft pinks of sunset on water. There are only a few people depicted, and not on every page, but they all present white. Though the text itself is straightforward, the vocabulary is rich with words such as "alight" and "survey" (not to mention the aforementioned "reconnaissance"), not typical board-book language. The similarly fashioned I Am a Tractor reads from the tractor's point of view. A stereotypical white man is the farmer, but the illustrations are otherwise as detailed and the text as specific as Airplane.

Detailed illustrations coupled with rich vocabulary will certainly take readers up, up, and away! (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews