Aircraft Carriers

by Matt Doeden

Get the dirt on the mightiest machines in town! Simple text and large, dynamic photographs put young readers in the driver's seat of these enormous, powerful machines.

Genres: Nonfiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Matt Doeden was born in southern Minnesota and lived parts of his childhood in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota. He studied journalism at Mankato State University, where he worked at the college newspaper for three years. In his senior year, he served as the paper's Sports Editor, which put him in charge of the entire sports section, the sports writers, and the photographers. He covered mostly college sports, but also the Minnesota Vikings, who held training camp at MSU.

His work allowed him to meet and interview people like Dennis Green, Cris Carter, Robert Smith, and more. Matt went on to work as a sports writer for the Mankato paper, and then he got a job as an editor with a small children's publisher called Capstone Press, and in 2003 he decided to start his own business as a freelance writer and editor.

Since then, Matt has written and edited hundreds of books. Lots of them are on high-interest topics like cars, sports, and airplanes. He also writes and edits on geography, science, and even math.

Reviews

[Nicholas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved reading this book because I love the military and I love good books like this one. The author did a very good job at explaining the different parts of an aircraft carrier. He did leave some facts out though but it didn’t ruin the book at all. An enthusiastic person would love to read this book and I would definitely recommend this to a friend.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a decent series of non-fiction books for the younger elementary crowd. I am a big fan of non-fiction books that keep the language simple but introduce facts and good content. The photographs occasionally have diagram-style captions, a good introduction to that element of non-fiction books.

[Mas5thgrade2011]

I liked the plane that has camafloushe because it is cool
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