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Title: Airport by Byron Barton ISBN: 0-06-443145-2 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 25 September, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun, fun, fun...
Comment: I have a two year old son, and he loves this book. The pictures are great, the descriptions are easy for him to understand, and are short enough to hold his attention. All of Byron Barton's books are great, but this one is his fave rave!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for airport and airplane fans
Comment: This time around Barton tackles a day in the life of a passenger plane traveler. We start out with passengers arriving at the airport and go through all the various activities that take place through take off. What happens to the luggage, getting the plane ready for take off, etc. are covered. A cross-section of a jet plane shows the various parts including toilet (which children think is hilarious) and also shows staff working to clean the plane before the passengers board.
This would be a great book to read to a child who is preparing to travel by airplane. It would be great preparation to understand all that goes into preparing the plane, what is happening as the people are waiting to board, etc. It would also be a great book to take on the flight as entertainment, especially since it is a thin paperback and lightweight.
Lots of people are in the airport and are of all ages and races.
Barton also has a board book about planes which depicts different kinds of airplanes, titled "Planes". "Airport" focuses just on jet passenger airplanes and the airport itself. If you enjoy this book I recommend Barton's other books as well.
My baby loves this book, he must love the illustrations. My four year old loves the book for the content. We are frequent airplane travelers and we have made air travel an adventure, always discussing all that goes on and intentionally making it a real fun experience. It has been successful so far because we don't experience air travel stress with either of our children. Both look at a trip to the airport as an adventure in and of itself. This book gives us more opportunities to discuss flying when we are at home, in between trips.
This is the only children's book I have ever seen that discusses airports and what goes on there.
Great, a must have!
Rating: 4
Summary: a gentle introduction to the airport for young children
Comment: This book is a good introduction to the sequence of events a child can expect to see when they take an airplane flight. The storyline, such as it is, unobtrusively follows a young boy and his family through the process -- arriving at the airport in a bus, standing in the ticket line, sitting in the waiting area, boarding the plane and finding your seat, and getting buckled in. There are also picture showing the crew preparing the airplane, the control tower okaying the plane for takeoff, the pilot and crew in the cockpit, and the jet taking off. There is a very nice cross-section showing the jet's fuselage, cargo hold, etc. Each picture is a brightly colored two-page spread, and my two-year old enjoys this book.
My quibbles are small. It would have been nice to see some more children in the pictures; and in one scene we see the little boy buckling up in a window seat on the lefthand side of the plane, but on takeoff we see him look ing out a window on the righthand side. A small enough mistake, but what if a child notices this and begins to worry that airplanes do not obey the laws of physics or logic? Will you be prepared to advance explanations that will not confuse?
Seriously, it's a nice book that should inform small children, and even help them when they first experience an airport.
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Title: Planes Board Book by Byron Barton ISBN: 0694011665 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Trains Board Book by Byron Barton ISBN: 0694011673 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Richard Scarry's A Day at the Airport by HUCK SCARRY ISBN: 0375812024 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.25 |
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Title: We're Going on an Airplane: Steve Augarde's Interactive Pop-Up Book by Steve Augarde ISBN: 1929927517 Publisher: Ragged Bear US Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Trucks Board Book by Byron Barton ISBN: 0694011649 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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