Your child presses their nose to the airport glass and asks about everything.

Brand New Updated Edition: completely rewritten and newly illustrated. Your child is not watching from the cabin. They take the left seat as captain of one real flight from San Francisco to Denver, plan the fuel, read the maps, and make the big call when a storm parks over the runway.

Three real moments from inside:

• The storm call. "Unable heading one one zero due to weather."
• The fuel plan. "Good call, Cap. Fuel is time."
• The landing. "Runway 16 Right points almost due south."

One complete flight, ten chapters. From the 7:10 alarm to the last logbook entry at the gate.

• Your child is the captain. They plan, fly, decide and land instead of watching.
• Real maps to read. Legends, scale bars, time zones and a kid version of an approach chart.
• Carefully fact-checked. Checked against FAA, NASA and National Weather Service sources.
• Art on every leg. New pencil-and-ink illustrations, labeled diagrams and a cloud spotter's guide.
• Hands-on extras. Experiments, a quiz, a Pilot License and a Junior Captain certificate.

For the grown-up who fields every airplane question. Parents get a screen-free book that turns airplane obsession into reading, maps and science. Grandparents get a great answer to "how do planes fly?"

Add it to your cart today and hand your young aviator the captain's seat before their next flight.