Richard Scarry's A Day at the Airport

A Day at the Airport is a fun read for young children from kindergarten- second grade. In the story father Cat wants to take Huckle, Sally, and Lowly out sailing but while they get the sailboat ready it starts to rain. They were all very disappointed until Rudolf saves the day and invited them to fly with him in his airplane-car. Rudolf took them all to the airport to give them a tour of what it is like at the airport. The illustrations have a lot going on in them. There are a lot of different colors, and a lot of motion from vehicles, airplanes, and animals. This would be a good book for in the classroom to show students how crazy it is at an airport and how much there is to do there. In the classroom, the teacher could also point to show more something in the picture and ask the students what that is. For example, the teacher could point at the pilot in the airplane and then the class would tell him or her what that is. show less

Summary
This is a problem/solution book as far as suggestions for children on a rainy day. It was a great read. I enjoyed the trip to the airport and all the things that the author taught through the adventure of riding on a bratwurst balloon. For myself I learned some new words and had fun just looking at all the attractive imagery. I found out through reading this many children have no idea what an airport looks like.

Personal Reaction
This book caught everyone's attention. Airplanes are an attraction to children. Children are like sponges and they love to learn new things.

Classroom Extensions
1. Find videos of real airplanes and what it looks and feels like to ride in an airplane.
2. Take the children to a local airport.
3. Ask them to show more draw a picture of where they would go if they had wings to fly. show less

Sally, Huckle, and Lowly are supposed to go sailing with Huckle and Sally's father, but it starts to rain. Father says they will have to stay inside and play, but their friend Rudolf von Flugel saves the day when he picks the kids up in his airplane-car and whisks them off to the airport for a fun day of sightseeing. Full of airport fun and "Scarry" mishaps.