Hello, Airplane! by Bill Cotter

Bill Cotter's Hello, Airplane! is a perfect book to introduce your little one to air travel!  From boarding the airplane (on the old-fashioned portable stairs--do they still use those?), to leaving the ground, flying over people, mountains, trees, and birds, and saying hello to the ground again, the airplane journeys through the night.  Cotter's drawings are simple and warm, and will encourage safe, happy, friendly feelings about air travel.  I enjoyed his use of perspective.  Some drawings are from below, looking up, others from above, looking down, some as if looking out of the plane, some as if watching the plane from the ground.  The text is sparse, as you would expect, for the pre-reading and very early reading audience.  This would be a cute book to take along for a toddler's first airplane journey.


Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!