I Love Planes!

by Philemon Sturges, Shari Halpern (Illustrator)

Overview

Some land on water.
Some can loop around the sky.

What does your favorite plane do?

Blast off into the world of biplanes and gliders, seaplanes and dive bombers, and find out the special jobs of every kind of plane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060288983
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/18/2003
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,052,106
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.32(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Philemon Sturges was an architect and the author of several books for children, including I Love Trains!, I Love Trucks!, I Love Planes!, I Love School!, and I Love Bugs!

Shari Halpern has illustrated a number of books for children, including Hush, Little Baby and all five previous books in the I Love series. She lives in South Orange, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.

Editorial Reviews

Young flight enthusiasts will soon be taking off on solo reading jaunts.” — Kirkus Reviews

“A high-flying treat” — Booklist

From the Publisher

A high-flying treat

Booklist

A high-flying treat

Booklist

A child expresses a keen interest in all manner of aircraft in I Love Planes! by Philemon Sturges, illus. by Shari Halpern. Endpapers describe flying machines and terms (e.g., "Sky scratches are not smoke. They are ice crystals made by the airplane's breath in the cold of the high sky"), in a format that follows I Love Trains!, which is now available in paperback.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-K-After folding and flying a paper airplane, a boy dreams about ways of traveling aloft, such as balloons, blimps, and spaceships. Down on Earth, readers see him soaring on a swing and being twirled around in the air by his mother. Children will enjoy the bold colors and simple text in this third outing from Sturges and Halpern. They will particularly enjoy finding out that the child's mother is an astronaut. Bright endpapers show a range of flying machines with a little bit of information about each of them. Preschool storyhours will soar with this book. Pair it with Douglas Florian's Airplane Ride (HarperCollins, 1984) and Donald Crews's Flying (Morrow, 1989). A great choice for most collections.-Bina Williams, Bridgeport Public Library, CT Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Sturges and Halpern (I Love Trains!, 2001, etc.) team up again for the not-unexpected airborne entry in their series of picture books on the apparatus of travel. A child, most likely a little boy, declares his love of flying machines of all kinds from planes and jets to balloons and gliders. He lists the things he’d like to do while in the air: "I want to land on the sea and not get wet, / Then zoom to grandpa’s in my jumbo jet!" The bottom line: he loves planes. Halpern’s bright, full-bleed illustrations are as charmingly simple as before. Sturges’s rhyming text will lend itself to quick memorization. Young flight enthusiasts will soon be taking off on solo reading jaunts. Front and back endpapers, much like the previous volumes, feature a sentence or two of information next to pictures of each flying machine. The whole book would work well for group sharing, while those endpapers would be a perfect stepping-off point for one-on-one sharing with older preschoolers. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews