The Fabulous Flight - Robert Lawson

The Fabulous Flight - by Robert Lawson
Dover Publications
Originally Published in 1949, re-publish April 2018
Illustrated by the author

This digital copy provided by Dover publications via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

My rating (out of 5)
⭐⭐⭐⭐

A deightful, fantastical, classic tale for children.

Peter Peter Peeabody Pepperell III was a normal boy.  Then one day he stopped growing up, and started growing down. As he became smaller and smaller, his parents remove him from school for his safety, because he is just too small.  But as small as he is, he is not too small to team up with friendly seagull Gus, and depart on the most adventurous flight!

The illustrations are whimsical and wonderfully detailed.

This book would make for wonderful bedtime reading to a child who, although perhaps old enough to read to themselves, still alows someone to read to them.  I say this because having been written so long ago, some aspects of the story may need some minor interpretation. For example, I doubt many young children today would know what a "phonograph" is. This by no means detracts from the story though!  I for one, enjoy bedtime story bonding with my son, and will probably be reading him this story some time in the not so very distant future.

Happy Reading,
Teenie K