Climb aboard the bird with Lt. “Gutts” Guttman and his
pal, Nugget, as they catapult off an aircraft carrier they call
Mother. Pull a few Gs and test out your flight skills in a practice
dogfight or check out the jets in the hangar. There’s so much
to see on this exciting tour of duty!
Nugget on the Flight Deck soars with real military jargon
and facts about life aboard an aircraft carrier, and is sure to
make young readers—and future aviators—feel and talk
like fighter pilots.
Learn
more about the story behind the story in my interview
with Aaron Zenz (illustrator) and his three children. Don’t
miss the children’s drawings and the dueling book trailers!
CYBIL
Award Nominee (Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Award)
in the Nonfiction/Informational Picture Book category
"A great introduction to fighter jets and aircraft carriers
for young readers." -- Booklist
“‘Kick
the tires and light the fires.’ If you’re a fighter
pilot on an aircraft carrier, that means do the preflight check
and take off quickly. Readers get a personal tour of the ship
by a young visitor. Military jargon appears in boldface in the
text and is defined in a separate pictorial area on each spread.
Colored-pencil illustrations show many essential components of
the carrier and the planes that take off and land on its deck.
Nugget visits the basement, or main hangar deck, and learns about
how pilots contend with the force of gravity. The complicated
mechanics of taking off and landing on a 300-foot runway are explained
and detailed through the illustrations. The jobs of many crew
members also are examined. Although this book will have special
appeal to the children of military families, anyone interested
in planes will appreciate the high level of information provided
in an attractive, accessible format."
-- School Library Journal
"Considering the fact that my father served on the USS Forrestal
(CV59), I could not pass up the chance to review this book...[S]entiment
aside, it will hold appeal for young readers, too...The book is
written in a conversational tone which introduces numerous air
and nautical terms and slang, so no glossary is needed; terms
are highlighted within the text and then explained in sidebars
on each page, sometimes with illustrations." -- Kara
Schaff Dean, Not
Just For Kids blog
"Kids can’t get enough of our military and their jeeps
and tanks and airplanes and ships. Kids will love this one...The
pictures are action packed. The text is action packed...I’m
probably one of the people in the world who knows very little
about flying or the military, but I loved reading this book."
-- Debbie Ashley Nance, readerbuzz
blog
