air travel

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce children to the people and things they might see while going on an airplane.

Presents over twenty fiction stories and story excerpts about flying, including selections by Jules Verne, Dale Brown, James Michener, Stephen Coonts, and others.

Rhyming text introduces air travel, from the airport to the flight deck, with information about how planes fly, safety rules, in-flight entertainment, and air traffic control.

Temina prepares for her first airplane trip and tries to convince her mother that she needs to bring along more than one toy.

Simple text and photographs present the experience of taking a ride on an airplane.

Tells the story of how the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland and its surrounding communities opened their hearts and homes to passengers on airliners bound for the United States that were forced to land in Gander when U.S. airspace was closed on September 11, 2001.

Explains why people travel in air and space and introduces the various forms of transportation used.

A boy and his family fly from the city to visit his grandmother in the country. Presented in English and Spanish.

Chronicles the history of manned flight, from Leonardo da Vinci's fifteenth-century drawings of flying machines to excursions into outer space.