My son was attracted to this book as it is about helicopters. I was sorry I bought it. First, there are stickers that you are supposed to put on the pages. I let him do it his way, putting things where he wanted. Otherwise I would have been too much of a dictator, saying "no--put this there", etc. As you read the text you realize that the stickers only have one "right" place and if there is one in the wrong place the text does not even make sense. For example, the vegetables sticker is supposed to go in the helicopter's net but my son put it on the loading dock instead (which makes sense). The stickers don't stick well and my son has taken it upon himself to peel them away bit by bit, when he played with it by himself, so the book looks horrible with parts of stickers in some places. The story is nothing special and is actually quite silly. The helicopter lands down on top of a parade float onto a flat and empty base of glue (silly). He sticks to the glue and needs help getting out. The helicopters go around doing different deliveries and it ends with Budgie getting washed off as he is sticky with glue and smelly from delivering fish. This is one for the trash bin. I think this may have been related to a TV show as there is something on the back cover to indicate this but we've never seen the show itself. This is the kind of book that may appeal to the child becuase it is a familiar TV character but the book is of inferior writing and a low entertainment value.

Prim and prissy without being amusing or clever. I've read Agatha Christie and he's no Agatha Christie. I love cozy mysteries. It is too bad there are so few really good writers pursuing that genre. (Try Beaton or Grimes)