Best Ever Paper Airplanes Author:Norman Schmidt “Sleek, slick, and beautiful....Includes similarities to real-life airplanes....The book features crisp white diagrams, clear black type, step-by-step instructions, yellow boxes of special construction information, and magnified views of tricky sections.”—School Library Journal. “A well-thought-out and handsome vol... more »ume that should provide successful projects for careful readers.... [Schmidt’s] ideas for coloring and decorating the projects make the ‘paper birds’ extra special.” —Booklist.« less
I checked this book out of the library for a 5 year old I baby sit occasionally. He can't get enough of this book! While a lot of the planes are too complicated for him to build on his own, it's been a great activity we can do together. He can't read the words, but the pictures are clear enough for him to understand. There's a lot of measuring, cutting, and glueing to be done on some of the more complicated planes, but I don't think older kids would have much of a problem. I'd say 95% of the planes we've built have flown impressivly well, in fact some of the easier ones fly the best.