Airplanes (What If) - Hardcover

Grade 2-4?Two volumes in an ephemeral series that combines supposedly funny cartoon illustrations with generalized answers to posed, frequently rhetorical questions. "What if aircraft didn't have wings?...What if planes could land on water?...How do pilots tell time?" "Is there a man in the Moon?...What if there were Martians?" Parker abandons the question-and-answer format at will, and many of the responses are vague or even contradictory. Aside from a few labeled diagrams, the full-color illustrations are unabashed space-fillers, artist's doodles scattered between islands of text without apparent regard for visual unity. Readers used to the "Eyewitness" books and Dorling Kindersley nonfiction will quickly push these titles aside.?John Peters, New York Public Library
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