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What's a Piper Cub?

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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

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.