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Have you ever wondered what little airplanes do when it’s time for bed? Jumbo jets, biplanes, helicopters—even Air Force One!—power down, wash up, and listen to stories with mommy and daddy planes beneath a blanket of stars, getting ready to fly to dreamland. Little airplane lovers will be tickled to see how bedtime is just the same for their favorite flying vehicles as it is for them, as they come down to earth for sleepy time.
"Combining a quiet, nocturnal story with the ever popular subject of flying machines, this is a nifty bedtime book for budding aviators." —Kirkus Reviews
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May 16, 2017 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780399554506
- File size: 6 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 560
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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March 1, 2017
Jet planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps--these are just some of the anthropomorphized flying machines that need to bed down at night. Following two similar books on digging machines and steam trains, the author-illustrator team uses simple rhyming verses and deeply colored, full-bleed, double-page paintings to pull young readers into a dreamy world in which planes and other flying transportation have big friendly eyes and wide smiles. There's also a cheery mouse cropping up in each spread to encourage readers to keep their eyes peeled. Even Air Force One makes an appearance. This deep-blue spread depicts the plane on the tarmac, dreaming about flying over Mount Rushmore. The mouse waits nearby in a long black limo. Many illustrations include a parent machine and a child one, as in the skywriting plane pages. The young plane sports a smiley face on its vertical stabilizer. The verse reads: "Where do skywriting planes sleep / after writing way up high? / Do moms read them bedtime stories / that are written in the sky?" In the purple sky, the words "ONCE UPON A TIME..." appear. The book ends peacefully in a bedroom filled with toy planes, the mouse, and a white human child asleep, ostensibly dreaming of all these aviation adventures. Combining a quiet, nocturnal story with the ever popular subject of flying machines, this is a nifty bedtime book for budding aviators. (Picture book. 4-6)COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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January 1, 2018
A series of rhyming questions ponder how different air transportation (from helicopters to hot-air balloons) prepare for bed, seemingly just like humans. "Where do jet planes sleep at night after a day of engines roaring? / Do dads share bedtime tales of their transatlantic soaring?" Soft pastel-like illustrations with (occasionally creepy-looking) anthropomorphized vehicles should set the sleepy mood for transportation fans.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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