Claire Bear’s First Solo
Claire Bear’s “The Pilot Alphabet”
This book is for 3-8 year olds, and describes the secret words used by pilots when they want to spell a word over the radio.
Here’s some comments to the author from someone who read the book…
Hi Sue,
I gotta tell you… my 7 year old daughter was reading your phonetics book to me in the car, or more precisely using it to look up letters required to spell various names. She had read the whole thing her self unprompted by me earlier in the day and wanted to talk about it.
She stated that the letter for “F” is “Foxtrot” and my 9 year old son piped up from the back seat “Foxtrot!? That’s the dance of love!”. Whatever are they teaching kids in school these days?
I mentioned that, in fact, there were two dances of love in the phonetic alphabet, and the names of two lovers. He said “Yes, they are from Shakespeare aren’t they?”, so I guess the educational system is achieving something.
Anyway, they have both been enjoying the discussion based around your book and spelling their own names. It was my daughter’s suggestion to read this one in the car this morning after so enjoying Claire’s First Solo yesterday. She’s on to you though… “This is really about the author, isn’t it Dad. She’s just been drawn as a bear so it doesn’t look like her”.
The only trouble is that for years I have been using the phonetic alphabet to send secret messages to their Mum that I did not want the kids to understand, such as “After the kids go to bed lets get a Sierra-Uniform-November-Delta-Alfa-Echo”, but now I’m gonna have to think of a new code. They are on to me. Thanks.
Like Claire Bear’s First Solo, this book is fun and promoted another enjoyable discussion about aviation with my kids. I couldn’t get nearly so interested if they were reading about horsies or knitting! Well done, and thankyou.
You can get this book direct from the author, Sue Hughes, from her website, Powder Puff Pilot.
Other Reviews of The Pilot Alphabet
Review by Pebble (age 7)
Story :- The pilot alfurbet
Pitchers :- lovly
Carickis :- very funny
Achil Story :- long
Pzention :- prity good
Grad :- A+
