Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane

PreS-Gr 1–In this playful, rhyming book, a young girl discovers just how difficult airplane travel can be when she ignores her own advice and brings along her jumbo, blue rhino. Like a toddler with few manners who thinks only of fun and food, the blue rhino causes chaos in the airplane and in the airport. The stanchions, luggage carousel, and airplane seats will never be the same. Luckily, the girl and her rhino finally arrive at their destination, quickly squeezing in time to enjoy a play, a scuba diving class, a roller-coaster ride, and a sundae. Unfortunately, on the return trip, they have to parachute from the plane—and only the rhino looks like he is having fun. The cut paper illustrations perfectly capture the hilarious hijinks, and the expressions on the young girl’s face as well as on the rhino’s face are ever changing and expressively zany. Detracting from all this is that the rhymes do not always flow smoothly.