Reading Level: Grade 3 Interest Level: Grades 1 – 6
Discover the world’s biggest, most awesome airplanes! From immense passenger jets to king-sized cargo planes, the aircraft featured in this book all share one quality—they’re HUGE! Dazzling photos combined with fascinating information will engage kids as they learn all about these super-huge machines.
In a browsing item par excellence, Goldish introduces nine existing megaaircraft, from the 840passenger Airbus A380 to the 159footlong B52 bomber. The simply phrased narrative and captions describe what each vehicle carries, along with top speed, full weight, and other basic facts. The text is shouldered aside, though, by big - ”you might even say freakybig - ”color photos that portray each jet either in the air or on the ground alongside antlike humans or seemingly miniature cargo. Some views of cavernous insides also provide a riveting sense of the size of these monsters. A visual glossary and a look at four other outsize flying machines (the U.S. military's Sikorsky CH53E Super Stallion helicopter, for instance) cap this aweinspiring entry in the World's Biggest series.
