Sadie the Air Mail Pilot
Written and Illustrated by Kellie Strom
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-0-385-60506-9
Summary/Back cover:
Once upon a time a few brave pilots in little planes flew the Air Mail.
This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Sadie, a cat, who flies a plane to deliver the mail. She gets caught in a storm one day, but she sticks with her motto of "The winds may blow ice and snow, but still the Air Mail's got to go!"
My 2 year old boy loves this book because we get to make aeroplane noises as we read it, and he enjoys pointing out what animal the other characters in the book are.
I'm intrigued to know exactly where Air Mail HQ is in this book - one of the lines is the Chief giving orders for where everyone is to fly: "Pete, you fly the mail to Lima, Gus, you go to Santiago, and Charlie to Cordoba. Jack and Barney, you two do the route to Panama," - we're obviously in South America, but that seems to be quite a big area that these little planes cover!
All the same, this is a lovely wee book that I can definitely recommend.
My rating: 4 out of 5 - it's not a rhyming book, so may not appeal to the very young, but definitely appeals to toddlers who are into aeroplanes and making onomatopoeic sounds.
Review written by Bronwyn
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