Customer Reviews

Airport

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
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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!

My 2 1/2 year old son loved this book so much when we checked it out at the library, that I had to buy him his own copy. The text is simple and easy for him to understand and the pictures are bright and simple, yet complete and accurate in their representation of a real airport experience. He has fun going through the book over and over again looking for new things, asking me what they are: the security checkpoint, the fuel truck, the jetbridge, the overhead luggage bins, the rolling stairs, the mechanics checking the airplane's engines. He has logged several hours of airtime traveling with our family, but is still fascinated with the airport every time he picks up this book.

I recommend this book to anyone traveling by air with children under 5. The illustrations and simple, age appropriate language completely explain the entire process of air travel to small children, from arrival at the airport to the actual flight. My 20 month old daughter recognized many scenes from the book at the airport. Because she knew what to expect, her fears were completely calmed, even during the loud take-offs and landings.

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!!!!!!!!!

This book is exactly right for children ages 1-5 and the people who fly with them. It doesn't get too technical, and there's not an information overload. Instead it explains with gentle text and pictures exacttly what happens from the time you get to the terminal until the plane takes off. It is great for answering "why aren't we moving, mommy?" and "what is that man doing to our plane?". I have given this book as a gift to many of my friends' children, and it is a well-thumbed favorite in every house.

My daughter, now 23 months, has loved this book since she was 14 months old. This book has made her even more fascinated with airplanes. When she sees an airplane she always points it out and asks to go on an airplane. She asks for us to read this book daily (my husband and I have it memorized). The illustrations are wonderfully bright in color. The text is simple but written well for young children to understand the pictures. This is one book I don't mind reading everyday!

We took our young boy with Learning Disabilities on his first airplane ride recently, and this book did an INCREDIBLE job of prepering him for the journey - I don't know what we would have done without it. The only drawback I can see to it is that there's nothing to explain the "inflight" part of the journey - which can be alleviated by another great book - The Noisy Airplane Ride - which covers the entire process of takeoff, flight and landing, but not realy the airport. Buy both, I say.

This book was the perfect book to prepare my 3 year old son for our upcoming plane trip. The pictures perfectly depict what it's like at the airport, including the waiting areas. We talk about what the people are doing, where they're going, and what's going on. Also, the pictures themselves are so colorful and fun to look at that it completely captures his attention.

My 36 mo old loves airplanes. Who doesn't? I love airplanes! We have fun reading this book. It explains every aspect of the airplane and traveling.

At about 20 months, our son received this book as a gift, and was instantly fascinated by the simple drawings of vehicles, people and airplanes doing their business about the airport. The narration is very simple, and arcs from passenger curbside arrival through to the departure of a flight.

Simple details such as the bus at the curb, the clock behind the ticket counter, or the fastening of the seat belts get much attention.

There's even a aircraft lavatory drawn in on one page, eliciting excited cries of "Potty!"

For his second birthday, I took him and his book to the airport to recreate the scenes depicted. With a little effort we were able to recreate all but one page, which made our son see his book in a whole new light (and made me appreciate the effort that went in to these seemingly simple illustrations).

Since our visit, he continues to enjoy the book with gusto, but now instead of excitement over the potty, he points furiously at the flight deck and then at himself: "Pee-lot. Pee-lot. ME pee-lot."

A departing wide body almost exactly replicated the illustration on the final page of this book, and he and I instantly caught the significance of the recognization, alternating wide-eyed back and forth from the book to the sky, and waving "Bye bye, airplane." Now before bed, the last page of the book always elicits a heartfelt "bye bye" and usually coaxes a little tear in daddy's eye.

How can I not love 'Airport'?