Ultimate Paper Airplanes for Kids: The Best Guide to Paper Airplanes!: Includes Instruction Book with 12 Innovative Designs & 48 Tear-Out Paper Planes

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In this brand new book, paper airplane expert Andrew Dewar presents hisultimate collection of easy-to-fold, high-performance planes for kids who arefascinated by paper airplanes. These planes are brightly colored and designed tofly beautifully each and every time.

The book opens with a fascinating primer to the principles of flight so kids canlearn about the forces that enable a plane to fly and affect the performance oftheir planes. They'll have fun coaxing the planes through their paces: doingloops, barrel rolls, glides and dives. The sky is the limit once they understandhow planes interact with the atmosphere!

The 48 perforated tear-out airplanes in this book are great to share with friendsand siblings and can be folded up easily in seconds. Detailed instructions areincluded for each plane, and folding lines are printed right on the sheets forperfect folding every time. The book includes a pull-out airport runway that kidscan use to park their planes and practice their precision landing maneuvers fromacross the room.

Honey Bee Books Blog shows just how much fun you can have with with the Ultimate Paper Airplanes for Kids kit.

Reviews

"Your kids will love to fold and fly these sturdy, aerodynamic paper airplanes! [] The colors of the paper are very vibrant, and the guidelines for the folding really helped my younger kids." --OutNumberedMama.com blog
"This book is the ultimate collection of easy-to-fold, high-performance planes for kids who are fascinated by paper or origami airplanes [] My kids read and learned about the forces that enable a plane to fly and affect the performance of their planes. They had so much fun testing out the planes they made by coaxing the planes through their paces: doing loops, barrel rolls, glides and dives." --uTry.it blog
"Ultimate Paper Airplanes For Kids would be fun for birthday parties, clubs, snow days, or indoor recesses. Have a race, see who can land on the included pull-out airport, or just have some good old fun with them." --Castle View Academy blog

Author Bio

Andrew Dewar was born in Toronto, Ontario and graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (B.A. Journalism) and University of Toronto (M.A. Japanese Studies, Library and Information Science) before moving to Japan in 1988. After completing his doctoral studies in library science at Keio University, he joined the faculty of a junior college in Japan. Soon after arriving in Japan he rediscovered his childhood love of designing and flying paper airplanes. His passion for paper airplanes led him to become president of the Fukushima Paper Airplane Club. Dewar has published over 30 paper crafting books and kits. He also teaches paper airplane workshops and does seminars at schools, libraries, community centers and museums. He lived and taught library science in Fukushima, Japan, until the giant earthquake and nuclear accident in March 2011, when the city became unsafe. After a brief stay in Canada, he's returned with his family to Gifu, Japan.

Kostya Vints was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. In 1995, he received his Master degree in Product Design at Belorussian Polytechnic Academy (Minsk, Belarus). After moving to Los Angeles in 1997, he continued to pursue his career as a graphic artist and in 2002 Kostya graduated from Westwood College of Technology with an Associate degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia. He has been creating digital art for over 13 years. Kostya has produced illustrations and conceptual art for a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide.