Nugget on the Flight Deck

K-Gr 2 "Kick the tires and light the fires." If you're a fighter pilot on an aircraft carrier, that means do the preflight check and take off quickly. Readers get a personal tour of the ship by a young visitor. Military jargon appears in boldface in the text and is defined in a separate pictorial area on each spread. Colored-pencil illustrations show many essential components of the carrier and the planes that take off and land on its deck. Nugget visits the basement, or main hangar deck, and learns about how pilots contend with the force of gravity. The complicated mechanics of taking off and landing on a 300-foot runway are explained and detailed through the illustrations. The jobs of many crew members also are examined. Although this book will have special appeal to the children of military families, anyone interested in planes will appreciate the high level of information provided in an attractive, accessible format."Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VA" Copyright 2010 Media Source Inc.