Planes and Helicopters (Big Machines) [Paperback]

Hariet Castor (Author), C. Gittord (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Usborne Books (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0794508413
• ISBN-13: 978-0794508418
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,898,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 120 books for children and adults. These range from the serious (Refugees, Robots, Planet Under Pressure: Pollution, Spies and Spying) and sporty (with books on the Olympics, football and tennis) to the downright silly (Pants Attack, Kelly's Smelly Wellies, The Huge Rude Duke).

Clive has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee (he was top scorer at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg back in the nineties).

His books have been shortlisted for the TES Information Book of the Year and the British Book Awards as well as winning Smithsonian, Children's Choice, NAPPA and PBS awards. Sir Ranulph Fiennes called his latest book on Explorers, "An inspiration to all adventurers." whilst The Guardian declared that his Kingfisher Book Of Football "was worth a season's training" and the Manchester Evening News labelled it "The classiest football book around."

Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for young future pilots, January 28, 2009

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Parrish Danforth "Professor Tallguy" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planes and Helicopters (Big Machines) (Paperback)

Lots of information on a wide variety of different types of planes.
I would recommend it for grades 1-6. Although, I'm reading it to my 5 year old nephew and he is doing fine. Lots of big illustrations. Short pieces of information make it easy to digest. I also bought the DK big book of airplanes, but I like this one better. The DK gives too much specific information about each plane, and isn't as interesting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book!, May 18, 2008

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A. Dean (Ingwavuma, South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planes and Helicopters (Big Machines) (Paperback)

My 2 yr old son loves this book after seeing a real plane. He is already learning the parts of planes and corrected me when I said that the propellar is the rudder. The book just gives some basic information on different kinds of planes and helicopters with good illustrations. It is great for a toddler who likes machines.