What's a Piper Cub? [Hardcover]

Jim Wheaton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 1997

"What's a Piper Cub?" is a book about a family being introduced to the fun of light aircraft flying. A child's question leads to a family field trip to the local small airport. There a friend shows them his Piper Cub and offers to take them for a flight.

Illustrations by aviation artist Sam Lyons, add scale and rich color that bring the story to life.

Written and illustrated by pilots, the book uses aviation terms to describe the fun and sensations of flying in light aircraft.

Children, ages five to nine, are the target age group for the book but it enjoys a popular following of aviation enthusiast of all ages.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"If you want to give a meaningful gift to youngsters in your family or any child, "What's a Piper Cub?" is about as perfect a gift as you are going to get." -- Dave Sclair, General Aviation News and Flyer, Dec. 1997

"The story, involving a family with two young children who are introduced to a Piper Cub at a local grass airport by a family friend, is an excellent introduction to general aviation." -- FLYING Magazine, Feb. 1998

About the Author

Jim Wheaton was lucky to grow up about three miles from a small town airport near Mason, Michigan. At age fourteen he started riding his bike to the airport, trading work for flying lessons. Starting in a Piper J-3 Cub, Jim is now a Captain for a major airline.

He and his wife, Kathe, and their children live on a small farm, (with an airstrip) in Western North Carolina.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Humpty Bump Pub Inc (October 22, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965851400
• ISBN-13: 978-0965851404
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,656,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars what's a piper cub, April 1, 2000

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Chris Jobin (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's a Piper Cub? (Hardcover)

i'm a might biased, as i was raised and nurtured with a 1946 j3 cub..with my dad in the rear seat and myself in the front..i was convinced at 7 years old that i was the pilot!...with that said,, i found mr weaton's book both innocent and charming...and purchased it for my 10 year old daughter...who will hopefully become a fledgeling aviation enthusiast!...she loved it...and i am happy to have it as part of our collection

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My grand-daughter has become a Cub addict!, August 19, 2002

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Daniel Ford (at danford dot net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's a Piper Cub? (Hardcover)

I bought this for my 20-month-old grand-daughter on a whim, and it has become our special book. We go to the airport almost every week, where she examines the Cubs and lesser aircraft. (If asked what any other airplane is, she replies: "Maybe a Cessna.") She has two plastic cups for earphones, or she borrows mine to listen to "Arnie" (the computer voice of NOAA weather radio). She has a plastic bucket that is her Cub; she sits in it and cries "Brakes! Cracked! Hot!" while I spin the prop. Then I have to take her around the pattern for a few turns until my shoulders give out.

Oops! This was supposed to be a book review. Well, the book certainly worked for me, since now I have a chum to visit the airport with. The paintings are more remarkable than the text (Helen can pick out the bungee cords, magneto switch, throttle, joystick, the major control surfaces, and even the compass). After a few readings, I tailored the story to a two-year-old's attention span, and now I don't read the words on the page at all, but the story that we have created over the past four months.