Kids Celebrate National Aviation Week

As many of you know, we provide a special storytime for families. Twilight Tales is held every Monday night @ 7:00 p.m. and all ages are welcome. It has been my experience that children have a fascination with airplanes. So, this week we will be celebrating National Aviation Week.  Below are few ideas to extend your child's storytime experience.

Suggested Books for Young Children:

• Airplanes : Soaring! Diving! Turning! by Patricia Hubbell
• My First Airplane Ride  by Patricia Hubbell 
• Airplanes by Byron Barton
• Flying by Donald Crews
• This Plane by Paul Collicutt  

Cool Books for Readers: 

• The Wright Brothers for kids : how they invented the airplane : 21 activities exploring the science and history of flight by Mary Kay Carson
• Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin Airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky  by Margot Theis Raven
• Amelia Earhart: the legend of the lost aviator  by Shelley Tanaka
• Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden

Airplane Art:

• Kids' paper airplane book  by Ken Blackburn 
• How to draw airplanes by Laura Murawski