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It's another busy day at Playtown Airport! From shops and restaurants at the bustling terminal, to special airport emergency services, to the ground crew preparing planes for takeoff, children will be fascinated to find out how Playtown Airport works in this highly detailed, illustrated board book. Each busy scene is packed with people to meet and things to look for and find, plus there are over 70 flaps to lift which reveal cross-sections of what is happening in the scenes above.
Age Range: 2 - 5 years
Series: Playtown
Board book: 18 pages
Publisher: Priddy Books; Brdbk edition (April 7, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031251803X
ISBN-13: 978-0312518035
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 0.6 x 10.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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Our twin girls (aged 3) really enjoy the original Playtown book so we picked this up in anticipation of an air trip.Like Playtown it is fully of cute colorful crowd scenes and flaps to show life behind the scenes. Playtown: Airport introduces the ground crews, the pilots, the luggage handlers and everyone else who keeps the planes flying. There's a lot whimsy there, cats and snakes lurk in the most unexpected places and at least one flap opens on an occupied toilet. There's a lot of diversity too, women in non-traditional roles including as pilots, Muslim passengers and (SHOCKING!) two male passengers holding hands. I was also happy to see a section that showed first class, business and coach class, best to let kids know early on where their family stands.But the end result is not all that interesting. One flap for example shows the fuel inside a tanker, another shows it inside the plane's wing. Interesting, but not really something a 3-year old in going to be into.The best page for them has several planes you can peek inside, from a cargo plane carrying elephants and trucks to a fire-fighting plane with firemen and a cargo full of water.It's a cute read but not as strong as Playtown
I'm disappointed in all of these reviews. A few of you managed to spot two men holding hands but nobody found "The Dude"?!The two children I care for (2&3.5) can pour over this book for ages. It's now my go~to when they start annoying eachother and need to mellow out. Apparently there are some guys holding hands but I never noticed that because i was too busy loving how there were women and men in every job imaginable and that There was more than one shade of skin colour. The only think I found unnatural is the availability of reading material on every potty pictured under the flaps. I never have a book in the airplane bathroom, these people in playroom are so prepared!
My 4 year old got hooked on the first Playtown "lift the flap" book. I was so happy to see that there was another one out. The illustrations are great and the stories are excellent. I love that every flap has a great narrative. I laugh at the reviews that show two men holding hands but this is reality! I can't wait for the new book to come out this fall. Playtown: Construction http://amzn.to/1NLHmmD
I think I love this book more than my kids. I bought it to teach them about where mommy goes when she leaves for work etc. It goes over everything involved from emergencies, catering, the lavs, different airplanes, etc. (And the other reviewer is clearly disturbed.)
I purchased the original Playtown book and my son loved it because there is so much detail and so many flaps. He also likes to find all of the cats/dogs on each page that seem to be hidden in the scenes. So I thought he would love Airport and while he does like it, it does not hold his attention the way the Playtown book does. It is informative about what is at the airport and the different types of aircrafts, etc. but doesn't seem like there are as many flaps as in the original book. Overall good, but prefer the original.
We bought four books to prepare our 2- and 5-year-old sons for their first and fourth (respectively) flights. This was the most helpful of the four; unlike some of the others, it's more technical with what happens in security - which was our biggest concern with taking two small children on a flight. The flaps kept both boys engaged; the information under each flap kept the older boy interested. I loved the diversity depicted in the pictures. This is something my kids don't notice consciously, but it's important for them to see different kinds of people depicted in books, especially since we live in a mostly white town. My husband and I loved the adorable gay couple on the last page. It's so refreshing to see drawings that represent ALL of our friends in one book. I hope that when my boys are older, they won't see two men (or two women) holding hands as something apalling, as some of the other reviewers of this book have.
Got this book for my toddler to look at in the car on a 18 hour car trip. It was perfect. He loves the tabs. It's easy to make up stories about what's happening behind the tabs. We had the playtown on too. They are both awesome. Good to keep them busy.
Not all of the Priddy books are created equal, but this one and Playtown are two of our all-time favorites. So many flaps! So many people. So many cats! Seriously, one of our fav games is finding all the cats on each page. My son now thinks cats are normal for firetrucks and buses. :) LOVE it!
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