Summary
This deilghtful book shows how to make thirty two origami (folded paper) models that really fly. All designs are made simply by folding squares or rectangles of paper (and even dollar bills ) without cutting, gluing, taping, or weighting.
Included are:
Manta Ray
Blackboard Bomber
Astro Tube
Flying Bat
Mach III Jet
Dollar Bills Gilders
Swooping Hawk
Origami Kite
Flying Nun
SST
Gliding Swan
Maple Seed
Monoplane
Seagull
Delta Jet
Penta-Flinger
Flying Fish
Art Deco Wing
and many more
"Wings & Things" is great fun and will challenge and inspire beginning and expert folders alike-perfect for anyone who ever tossed a paper airplane.
Kiki Thorpe was born in Agaña, Guam and grew up in Boise, Idaho. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona.
She has written or adapted over fifty books for children. A former children's book editor, she now writes full time and her works include: Ah-Choo!, A Comfy Cozy Thanksgiving, and Bear in the Big Blue House. She is the author of The Never Girls series, and has written some of the Disney Fairies chapter books series including: The Trouble with Tink, Tink North of Never Land, and Tink in a Fairy Fix.
Kiki also writes the Candy Apple, and Poison Apple books under the name Mimi Mccoy.
(Bowker Author Biography)
