Nicky goes to the airport which is a place where cars with wings live. Humans get in those "planes" and fly. Daddy Tim says that is how they go to far away places. Why do Humans always want to go away? Every kitty knows that a home is hard to find. And one where you are safe and warm and there is food and love is all you really need. Why would you want to leave that? See? Humans are strange.
Nicky's mother drops him at the airport and he helps a Human who flies planes (called a Pilot) check out his plane. They polish it and check the engine and a lot of the parts. Then Nicky and the pilot go for a flight.
That's the whole story.
The gimmick is that on each page, there is a flap. The pilot asks a question, and when the reader (with thumbs) lifts the flap, Nicky answers it.
I don't think this is really the kind of airport my daddies go to. Daddy Tim and Daddy Trent don't actually FLY the planes that take them away. But it was interesting to see.
I like the illustrations by Richard Brown most of all in this book. Nicky is a grey tabby kitty like me...though he is HUGE (he is up to the knee of the pilot, and his head is bigger than the human's in some pictures).
I give this book two treats. I think I would like to see a different story of Nicky that has more story. Daddy Tim says Harriet Ziefert has written a bunch...and that she has hundreds of other books. Maybe that is why there wasn't much too this one; she is low on ideas. I think little humans interested in airplanes might like this more (but not those who really want to know what an airport is like).
New Brown Mousie was at my food dish yesterday! It's bad enough that I have to keep Bubble out of there, and now I have to try to keep at least one of the mousies away from my food too. He mostly lives up in the daddies's sleeping room with me, so maybe he is hungry. I guess he can't eat much. I will keep an eye on him--maybe he was putting sleeping potions on my food! I am really sleepy all the time! I will try to stay awake and keep an eye on him. Maybe I will lay on him again. That will keep him in one place! |