#346 of 1001 · July 12, 2021

There’s a startling depth of philosophical insight in the wordless picture book The Boy and the Airplane by @authorstrator. When a young boy finds his beloved toy airplane stranded on the roof of his house, he tries everything he can think of to get it down. Just when all his efforts—jumping, climbing, swinging a rope, throwing a ball—seem doomed to failure, inspiration strikes and the boy enacts a plan that will require patience on a jaw-dropping scale. In his soft pencil and watercolor illustrations on shaded gray paper, Pett marries a cartoon style with a profound emotional resonance. #boy #airplane #plane #toy #plant #grow #tree #patience #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbooks #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks