Flight School From Paper Planes to Flying Fish, More Than 20 Models to Make and Fly
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Biographical note
Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice).
His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.
Featuring paper planes and lots more, Flight School is the ultimate papercrafts and model-making activity book for kids who are fascinated by aviation.
From an Archaeopteryx to a kingfisher and the Wright brothers' flying machine to an air-powered rocket, this book is packed with exciting models of gliding plants, animals and aircraft that readers can make and take to the skies. Amazing facts about flight and human aviation accompany each project, so kids can learn all about the science and history behind their models as they construct them.
This incredible cut-out kit guarantees hours of flying fun.
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice).
His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.