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Planes

By Elena Sturgess
Series: Fun Flaps
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Get ready for takeoff with Planes, the latest high-flying adventure in Taffy Tales' Fun Flaps series! This interactive board book is perfect for young travellers and aviation enthusiasts, packed with colourful illustrations, sturdy flaps, and engaging facts that make learning about planes and airports fun and... Read More
Format: Board book
$3700

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Get ready for takeoff with Planes, the latest high-flying adventure in Taffy Tales' Fun Flaps series! This interactive board book is perfect for young travellers and aviation enthusiasts, packed with colourful illustrations, sturdy flaps, and engaging facts that make learning about planes and airports fun and accessible.

From jumbo jets to tiny gliders, Planes introduces children to a variety of aircraft, airplane parts, and the bustling world of airports. With every lift of a flap, little readers discover exciting details about cockpits, gates, luggage, and even the history of flight. Perfect for curious minds, this book sparks imagination while teaching early vocabulary and aviation concepts.

Why you'll love Planes:

  • Interactive learning: Lift-the-flap elements reveal fun surprises and introduce airport and airplane concepts.
  • Engaging illustrations: Colourful, whimsical artwork keeps children entertained while they explore.
  • Early educational value: Introduces airplane types, parts, and simple aviation facts in a playful way.

About the Fun Flaps board book series: The Fun Flaps series from Taffy Tales features chunky, interactive board books with die-cuts throughout. These joyful titles celebrate popular subjects while promoting early language development and reinforcing first concepts. Packed with objects to see and words to learn, Fun Flaps books are designed to be read again and again. Taffy Tales creates best-selling children's titles that will be cherished and remembered.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781998211753

Publisher: Taffy Tales

Format: Board book

Date Published: 01 July 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Taffy Tales

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Wilson Judy

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 171.0mm

Weight: 458g

Pages: 12

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Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Elena Sturgess Series: Fun Flaps

About the Author

Illustrator: Judy Wilson is an artist and illustrator, originally from the UK, now living in Mexico City. She creates artwork for all manner of books: search and find, activity and coloring. She draws cute, whimsical characters with bright fun colors. Her illustration process begins with hand drawn art in a sketchbook, then designing art digitally, and more recently adding in hand drawn textures to pieces. She has taken courses specializing in children's illustration and narrative storytelling. She was runner up in the London Art College competition with a giant gouache and watercolor illustration titled 'Tree Of Life', filled with over a hundred animals. She's currently expanding her studies, by undertaking courses in art therapy. While Judy works on projects she listens to Classic FM with her 11 tiny Chihuahuas, next door to a friendly and noisy family of racoons.

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