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| How Do Airplanes Fly?: A Book About Airplanes (Discovery Readers) | 
| Authors: Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger
Creator: Paul Babb
Publisher: Ideals Publications
Category: Book
Buy New: $70.20
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 723932
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.2
ISBN: 0824953177
Dewey Decimal Number: 387
EAN: 9780824953171
ASIN: 0824953177
Publication Date: December 1, 2001
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Product Description
Winner of Favorite Paperbacks for 1994-IRA/CBC and A Children's Book-of- the-Month Club Selection. Ideals Children's Books award-winning Discovery Readers(r) Series was created to answer children's questions with fascinating facts and accurate illustrations. Each book has been reviewed by educational advisors and reading-level tested. Easy-to-read text explains how airplanes fly and also takes a trip through flying machine history.
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| Customer Reviews:
 As a Pilot and Mama, I'd Never Buy This Book September 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We got this book from our library for our airplane-obsessed nearly 2 yo. The illustrations are nice, but the 'facts' about fundamental things like the way a jet works are WRONG. This book perpetuates myths, helping to make another generation believe that airplanes can just fall from the sky. This book is a disservice to our children and I ABSOLUTELY do not recommend it.
Cute but Incomplete and Often Wrong September 10, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The storyline (a child going to the airport and taking a flight) and cute illustrations provide an engaging foundation to describe how airplanes and other aircraft fly. Unfortunately, the text is incomplete (it doesn't even attempt to explain how an airplane wing works) and, worse, frequently inaccurate. The author simply repeats many fundamental misconceptions (e.g., that jet engines work by because exhaust gases push on the outside air or that helicopters steer by tilting the rotor axis). This book not only fails to teach how airplanes fly, it explicitly teaches myths. Shame on the author for not doing the simple research it would have taken to get this right or for not having a competent person review his work.
 The Wonderful Men in Their Flying Machines. November 20, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book answers many questions children have concerning flight. It is written in a simple matter and is wonderfully illustrated. The book not only explains how airplanes fly, but also gives a brief history of flight, and introduces new vocabulary words chidren may not have heard before. I used this book as the foundation of a science unit I taught my preschoolers about airplanes.
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