FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Helicopters are amazing machines that go places and do things that planes can't. A Step Into Reading Level 4 title.
Susan E. Goodman is the author of more than thirty nonfiction books for children, including How Do You Burp in Space?; See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes, and the Race to the White House;All in Just One Cookie, an ALA Notable Book; and On This Spot, a Washington Post Top Picture Book of the Year. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
An up close look at helicopters, sometimes called whirlybirds, eggbeaters or choppers. This book tells the history of this amazing flying machine, and its many uses in society, and around the world.
Emerson went wild for this book this morning. It's a long one--5 or 6 little chapters with lots of great photos of helicopters in action. He went and got his police helicopter and we sat with it, the book and us in the chair. We were able to identify all the parts on the helicopter after reading the first chapter. Very nice book.