In today's picture book you will meet a little girl who is crazy about planes, and who wants to fly in a plane of her own more than anything else in the world.
Steve Light
Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Candlewick Press, 2012, 978-0-7636-5695-9
Zephyr loves
airplanes. In fact she spends a great deal of time making planes out of various
materials and then playing with them. Her dream is that one day she will be
able to fly in one of her own planes.
One day Zephyr
does a triple loop-de-loop in the sitting room (bouncing on the couch in the
process) and she crashes into a piece of furniture. Plates, glasses and other
items are broken, and Zephyr’s parents are furious with her. They send Zephyr
to her room where she sadly makes a paper plane. The plane lands behind a
dresser, and when Zephyr pushes the dresser away from the wall so that she can
retrieve the plane, she finds a little hidden door in the wall. On the other
side of the door is a room that is full of planes, plane parts, plane plans,
books about planes and travel, and the tools one needs to build and design
planes. For Zephyr, the room is a kind of heaven. Then she gets an idea and her
life gets even better.
There are times
when our hobbies, or passions, get us into trouble. This is exactly what
happens to Zephyr in this book. Thankfully for Zephyr, and for us, Steve Light
decides that his little girl character deserves to go on a splendid adventure,
and this is exactly what she does.
With a delicious
and magical story that is paired with wonderful illustrations, this is a
picture book that dreamers of all kinds will enjoy.
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