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How Do Airplanes Fly?: A Book About Airplanes (Discovery Readers)
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Price Last Updated : 7-30-2008
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Features
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Ideals Publications May 1996
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1571020446
ISBN-13: 978-1571020444
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2?Based on the idea that readers have arrived at the airport in preparation for a flight, this title presents a very simplified introduction to the topic. Several pages are devoted to the history of flight and early pioneers in the field. About 10 pages explain how propellers and jet engines help airplanes and helicopters to fly. No mention is made of how the shape of the wing is involved. The text of three to six sentences per page is set in large primary type. Vocabulary is appropriate for the intended audience; pronunciation is included, but on an inconsistent basis. Help is given for such words as cabin and cargo, but not for theater, instruments, and attendant. Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations add interest. For collections looking for "books about airplanes" for their youngest patrons, this one is adequate.?Eldon Younce, Harper Elementary School, KS
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Winner of Favorite Paperbacks for 1994-IRA/CBC and A Children's Book-of- the-Month Club Selection. Ideals Children's Books award-winning Discovery Readers(r) Series was created to answer children's questions with fascinating facts and accurate illustrations. Each book has been reviewed by educational advisors and reading-level tested. Easy-to-read text explains how airplanes fly and also takes a trip through flying machine history.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: How Do Airplanes Fly?: A Book About Airplanes (Discovery Readers) (Paperback)
The storyline (a child going to the airport and taking a flight) and cute illustrations provide an engaging foundation to describe how airplanes and other aircraft fly. Unfortunately, the text is incomplete (it doesn't even attempt to explain how an airplane wing works) and, worse, frequently inaccurate. The author simply repeats many fundamental misconceptions (e.g., that jet engines work by because exhaust gases push on the outside air or that helicopters steer by tilting the rotor axis). This book not only fails to teach how airplanes fly, it explicitly teaches myths. Shame on the author for not doing the simple research it would have taken to get this right or for not having a competent person review his work.
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How Do Airplanes Fly?: A Book About Airplanes (Discovery Readers)
by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, and Paul Babb
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