Book Review- The Paper Plane Flew
Written by Bharti Singh
Illustrated by Sheena Deviah
Published by Penguin Random House India
Ages 5+yrs
Making Paper Planes is a weekly tradition in my household. The father with his cup of tea and the child with her cup of chocolate milk skim through the Sunday Newspaper to find those numerous paper inserts. The glossy inserts make the best ones, I’m told!
Mithi and her father make a paper plane and let it loose. The paper plane takes a journey of its own landing into a classroom and thereon to a boat, to a forest and so on finally ending up inside an elephant only to eventually come out as poop. You would imagine that would be the end of the paper plane.
But no, there is more, the story comes a full circle at the end! And its the ending which made me slightly nostalgic, slightly sad that the said child is growing up so fast and that the days of us making paper planes together might be too passé!
Some books speak to the child, some to the child in you, but only rarely do I come across one which speaks to the adult in me in a way which wants to hold close, hold dear and not let go.
For the child the highlight was the conversion of the dung! Oh the laughs it got. This must easily be our favourite hook book of the lot. I realise I speak about the illustrations only towards the end, but here the illustrations are an extension of the narrative flow and keeps you hooked right to the end.
P.S. last pic is of the child teaching her friends to make paper planes!
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