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Mike Barfield

Flight School

From Paper Planes to Flying Fish, More Than 20 Models to Make and Fly

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Imprint: Buster Books

Publication date: 02/05/2019

ISBN: 9781780555850

Age: 9-11 years

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Activity & Puzzles

Binding: Paperback

Size: 297 x 210 mm

Extent: 80 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

Featuring paper planes and lots more, Flight School is the ultimate papercrafts and model-making activity book for kids who are fascinated by aviation.

From an Archaeopteryx to a kingfisher and the Wright brothers' flying machine to an air-powered rocket, this book is packed with exciting models of gliding plants, animals and aircraft that readers can make and take to the skies. Amazing facts about flight and human aviation accompany each project, so kids can learn all about the science and history behind their models as they construct them.

This incredible cut-out kit guarantees hours of flying fun.

Sales points:

  • Created by author, cartoonist and entertainer Mike Barfield, author of the Destroy This Book series (9,000 copies sold in the UK and in 16 languages overall)

  • Packed with colourful models to cut-out and build and facts to discover, there's hours of fun to be had

  • From an Archaeopteryx to a kingfisher and the Wright brothers' flying machine to an air-powered rocket, this book is packed with exciting models of gliding plants, animals and aircraft

  • This is the perfect cut-out kit for kids who are fascinated by aviation

  • 21 projects to complete, with 5 planes including the Wright Flyer, Bleriot X1 Monoplane, Helicopter blades, Concorde and Space Shuttle

About the Author:

Mike Barfield

Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice). His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.