Tag: plane

  • Car, Car, Truck, Jeep

    Car, Car, Truck, Jeep

    Aimed directly at the car mad little person this bright, bold sing along book will become a firm favourite for little ones, regardless of whether they are into things that go brrrrmm or not.

    Set to the tune of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, there is a lot of fun to have as the pages are turned and a new lot of cars, trucks, plane and tractors and diggers are revealed.

    Some sections of the text will prove to be a little tricky when attempting to sing through the pages and it would be a huge amount of fun to see what can be done with the inventive minds of the under 4 year age range.

    Also ideal for the first or beginner reader as the text is in a large easy to read format, the colours assist the text. Many of the vehicles drawn in the easily recognisable style of Nick Sharratt are easy to identify, with some lesser known outside of Europe such as the Hovercraft are sufficiently detailed to make an interesting discussion piece. 

    Many of the vehicles are explained such as emergency vehicles with their flashing lights and having to go in a hurry when they are needed, as is the noise a helicopter makes as it flies across the skies and the rumble of the digger as it goes about its work.

    Newcomer to the genre of children’s picture books Katrina Charman has created a book that will involve a great deal of fun, laughter and early learning experiences as it is read and learned to be read in a light-hearted style.

  • The Flying Optometrist

    The Flying Optometrist

    Written in a celebration of the men and women who take medical assistance to the remote regions of Australia, The Flying Optometrist gives an insight into what is to come, with the cleverly designed front cover showing the wide range of letters similar to the charts used in Optometrists clinics.

    The story focuses on Stephanie, a little girl who lives in a remote part of Australia, on a very large farm, near a very small town. The town is so small they rely on the flying clinics provided by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Flying Optometrist to bring in a wide range of medical services and such everyday necessities as health checks and eye checks, as well as organise some much needed new glasses for Stephanie and some of the other people who also live in the town.

    Stephanie has managed to break her one and only pair of glasses and can’t see anything very well through the cracked lenses. She can’t play cricket and no one is interested in letting her play with them at school because she keeps dropping the ball, She is very, very, miserable. There are several other people in town that badly need to visit the optometrist as well.

    The townspeople wait and wait for the arrival of the little red plane, but the weather is closing in, bringing with it a bad storm. They’re all very worried for the safety of the pilot, and his little plane but as a new day arrives, so too does the Flying Optometrist, safe and well.

    He does his work and then fly’s off to go to another town, promising Stephanie and her friends that their new glasses will arrive safely in the post in a few weeks’ time.

    The Flying Optometrist highlights the very real isolation that is a part of everyday life for so many Australians living in the country and the ongoing need to bring medical services to outback and remote towns which is as important today, as it has always been.

    In the back of the book there is a very well-constructed and informative look at the Royal Flying Doctor Service as well as the remote Optometrist Service of which Phil Anderton and his little red plane are an integral component.

    Wonderfully created with bright colourful illustrations used to reach out to children of a wide age range, The Flying Optometrist brings the little known world of remote Australia to life.