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Nugget on the Flight Deck

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Join Lt. Guttman and a young nugget as the pilot takes the boy on his first hop in a real bird. We follow the duo as they don their zoombags and speed jeans, and climb into the fighter. Then it's, "Kick the tires and light the fires!" The catapult slings the plane off the flight deck at 200 mph into the sky for a mock dogfight with a bogey. The jargon just keeps on coming, building up the excitement and putting you in the cockpit where the jet pulls enough Gs to make your stomach swoop! Kids will love using these fun new words which are meticulously illustrated and defined in the margins. A perfect combo of lively writing and dynamic art, this expertly researched book will entice both military buffs and aspiring aviators of all ages. The fascinating end material offers hours of possibilities for those wanting to know more. An ideal read for Veterans Day (and the rest of the year too).

Connie Goldsmith
childrens book reviewer for California Kids,
a Sacramento regional parenting publication

My son is an F-18 pilot aboard an aircraft carrier. My husband was also a Navy pilot. This book is fun to read and look at the pictures, but it is also extremely accurate and well done. I really like how she put the pilot "lingo" in italics and has a running glossary at the bottom of each page. My son is getting ready to deploy again and when he returns in 7 months, he will have his first little 4 month old son. I bought this book as a baby gift to give to him and his wife before he leaves. Perfect.

We got this book for our then 5 year old grandson last Christmas, a year later, and now being 6 - it is still one of his favortie books. He became so interested in flying and aircraft carriers that we searched out more books about flying and bought him a large toy aircraft carrier with planes. He now enjoys hearing everthing he can about flying and looking through his Grandpa's Flying Magazine. This book is very accurate and even tells the color codes for the different workers on the carriers and what they mean. We are trying to instill ideas in his young mind for varying posssiblilties as to what he might do professionally when he grows up. The facts and accuracy of this book really grabbed his imagination. Kids love information and facts about how things work , what they do, why they do it, and how. This book satifies that need in its area of experise in excellent fashion.