In this board book for prereaders—a follow-up to This Train—Paul Collicutt depicts 22 realistic airplanes in full-page paintings. Short sentences compare their essential qualities ("This plane is made of paper. / This plane is made of wood and canvas. / This plane is made of metal.") and differences ("This plane has propellers. / This plane has jet engines."). Though they have fanciful colors and markings, Collicutt has modeled his illustrations on actual aircraft, and young enthusiasts will be pleased to find that the end pages contain thumbnail paintings of 20 historical planes.