Planes and Rockets and Things That Fly

by Richard Scarry

An amazing new Richard Scarry collection filled with hilarious stories about jet planes, rockets, spacecraft and other things that fly! It's the perfect partner to Cars and Trucks and Things that Go and set to be a new Scarry favourite. In this collection Huck takes flying lessons, we learn how planes and birds fly, the cat family goes to the air show, and Wolfgang Wolf, Benny Baboon and Harry Hyena take a trip to the moon in their own rocket! Packed with amazing Scarry detail and with stories that can be read again and again, this book will give hours of fun to fans of planes, rockets and flying!

Genres: Childrens, Animals

Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

About the author

RICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.

Reviews

[Skywalka · Rating 2 out of 5]

A compilation of material from "Great Big Air Book" & "Busiest People Ever" makes this a disappointed buyer. My son loves "Cars, Trucks & Things That Go". They obviously through the similar title on some old material to dupe buyers into thinking the book was a sequel. In this case it has worked.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A cartoon book that is full of technical information, has beautifully drawn pictures and insidiously teaches science without your children noticing. What's not to like? Seriously I remember Busy busy World from when I was a child and I just love Richard Scary's drawings. They are so detailed and complex and beautiful.

[Laura's Book Addiction · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of sentences, definitely a book for more confident reader!!

[Wendy Unsworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Large sized softback book in typical Richard Scarry style with all the usual characters. The busy illustrations feature planes, helicopters and even space rockets.There's an air fair, work at an airport and a trip to the moon. Though there is chaos everywhere, everything ends well for Huckle and the gang.
Though I wasn't impressed at first, my children always loved Richard Scarry books and my grandkids love him too.

[Wayne Farmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always loved the art of Richard Scarry and still do - so much going on in each one that you can spend ages looking at them and finding new things. I was surprised by how informative for kids this book was and its very good at explaining how airports work and how planes manage to fly.

[Zayneea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely book full of a lot of different short stories. Every page is bursting with colours from all the beautiful illustrations. I love aeroplanes / things that fly, so really really enjoyed this.