Where Do Jet Planes Sleep at Night?

by Brianna Caplan Sayres, Christian Slade (Illustrator)

Overview

Now available in a portable board book edition—perfect to take with you on an airplane! The same team that brought you Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night? has created another high-flying bedtime story—this one for plane enthusiasts!

Have you ever wondered what little airplanes do when it's time for bed? Jumbo jets, biplanes, helicopters—even Air Force One!—power down, wash up, and listen to stories with mommy and daddy planes beneath a blanket of stars, getting ready to fly to dreamland. Little airplane lovers will be tickled to see how bedtime is the same for their favorite flying vehicles as it is for them, as they come down to earth for sleepy time.
 
"Combining a quiet, nocturnal story with the ever popular subject of flying machines, this is a nifty bedtime book for budding aviators." —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399554483
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Series:	Where Do...Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	204,104
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

BRIANNA CAPLAN SAYRES is also the author of Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?, both illustrated by Christian Slade. She lives with her husband and their two boys in Seattle. You can visit Brianna on the Web at briannacaplansayres.com and facebook.com/authorbrianna.

CHRISTIAN SLADE’s classic, distinctive art style can be found in picture books, novels, and magazines for children. He holds an MA in illustration from Syracuse University, as well as a BFA in drawing and animation from the University of Central Florida. He lives with his wife and two children in Florida. Visit him on the Web at christianslade.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-02-20
Jet planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps—these are just some of the anthropomorphized flying machines that need to bed down at night. Following two similar books on digging machines and steam trains, the author-illustrator team uses simple rhyming verses and deeply colored, full-bleed, double-page paintings to pull young readers into a dreamy world in which planes and other flying transportation have big friendly eyes and wide smiles. There's also a cheery mouse cropping up in each spread to encourage readers to keep their eyes peeled. Even Air Force One makes an appearance. This deep-blue spread depicts the plane on the tarmac, dreaming about flying over Mount Rushmore. The mouse waits nearby in a long black limo. Many illustrations include a parent machine and a child one, as in the skywriting plane pages. The young plane sports a smiley face on its vertical stabilizer. The verse reads: "Where do skywriting planes sleep / after writing way up high? / Do moms read them bedtime stories / that are written in the sky?" In the purple sky, the words "ONCE UPON A TIME…" appear. The book ends peacefully in a bedroom filled with toy planes, the mouse, and a white human child asleep, ostensibly dreaming of all these aviation adventures. Combining a quiet, nocturnal story with the ever popular subject of flying machines, this is a nifty bedtime book for budding aviators. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews

"Combining a quiet, nocturnal story with the ever popular subject of flying machines, this is a nifty bedtime book for budding aviators." —Kirkus Reviews


Praise for Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

“The pictures in this book are amazing and the rhyming phrases that accompany them make this a super cute story.” —Kiss the Book (a book review site for school librarians)

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