Flying for Fun
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Overview
Flying is much more than just a way of getting from place to place. It can also be an exciting and challenging form of recreation. Read all about graceful, floating hot air balloons, soaring gliders, breathtaking aerobatics, and air races, as well as aircraft designed and built by people at home.Synopsis
Flying is much more than just a way of getting from place to place. It can also be an exciting and challenging form of recreation. Read all about graceful, floating hot air balloons, soaring gliders, breathtaking aerobatics, and air races, as well as aircraft designed and built by people at home.
Sally J. K. Davies - Children's Literature
From lightweight gliders to the tiny Hummel home-built, this book covers the different aircraft built for the general population. Flying for Fun briefly touches on ballooning, gliding, learning to fly, home-builts, modern light aircraft, ultra lights, air racing, vintage aircraft, warbirds, aerobatics, model planes, and a spotters' guide. The page design is heavy on images and consequently the text is made up of a group of short fact blurbs to introduce the subject matter. This will especially appeal to struggling readers. Flying for Fun is part of "The Story of Flight Series." Each book in the series is heavily illustrated with lots of labeled diagrams, cut-away illustrations, size comparison silhouettes, color photographs, black and white photographs and sketches, computer-generated art, and great impressionistic paintings. A team of illustrators contributed to each book. Many of the illustrations, especially some of the computer-generated art, are beautiful. Other illustrations seem tight and technically awkward. The back of the book contains a glossary and index. This series from Crabtree Publishing also includes the titles Air Combat, Amazing Flights - the Golden Age, Commercial Aviation, Helicopters, Military Aircraft of WWI, Military Aircraft of WWII, Modern Military Aircraft, Seaplanes and Naval Aviation, Space Flight, The Wright Brothers and Other Pioneers of Flight, and Weird and Wonderful Aircraft. 2004, Crabtree, Ages 7 to 12.
Editorials
Children's Literature
From lightweight gliders to the tiny Hummel home-built, this book covers the different aircraft built for the general population. Flying for Fun briefly touches on ballooning, gliding, learning to fly, home-builts, modern light aircraft, ultra lights, air racing, vintage aircraft, warbirds, aerobatics, model planes, and a spotters' guide. The page design is heavy on images and consequently the text is made up of a group of short fact blurbs to introduce the subject matter. This will especially appeal to struggling readers. Flying for Fun is part of "The Story of Flight Series." Each book in the series is heavily illustrated with lots of labeled diagrams, cut-away illustrations, size comparison silhouettes, color photographs, black and white photographs and sketches, computer-generated art, and great impressionistic paintings. A team of illustrators contributed to each book. Many of the illustrations, especially some of the computer-generated art, are beautiful. Other illustrations seem tight and technically awkward. The back of the book contains a glossary and index. This series from Crabtree Publishing also includes the titles Air Combat, Amazing Flights - the Golden Age, Commercial Aviation, Helicopters, Military Aircraft of WWI, Military Aircraft of WWII, Modern Military Aircraft, Seaplanes and Naval Aviation, Space Flight, The Wright Brothers and Other Pioneers of Flight, and Weird and Wonderful Aircraft. 2004, Crabtree, Ages 7 to 12.—Sally J. K. Davies