BooksForKidsBlog: Happy Landings! <i>Angela's Airplane</i> by Robert Munsch

Angela's father took her to the airport.

Angela's father got lost. Angela looked on top of airplanes and under airplanes.

There was only one more place to look. There was one airplane with the door open, so Angela climbed up the steps and into the airplane. Her father wasn't there. No one was there.

Up front there was a seat that had lots of buttons, so Angela asked herself, "It's okay if I push just one button?" Why not?

Angela pushes the red button. The door behind her closes. Should she push another button? She tries the green button.

VROOM VROOM!

Yikes! Angela tries pushing almost ALL the buttons, and the plane rises up into the sky! This is not what Angela meant to do at all.

She tries pushing the big black button. A very loud voice comes out of the radio.

"You thief! Bring back this airplane!"

Angela said, "My name is Angela. I am five years old and I don't know how to fly this plane!"

The voice becomes softer as it tells Angela to turn the wheel to the left. The plane turns and the airplane goes back toward the airport. The worried voice on the radio tells her to pull the wheel back toward her. When she does, the plane starts to go down.

Needless to say, it's not an altogether happy landing. The plane is a wreck, but Angela is fine. As ambulances and fire trucks and police cars surround the scene, Angela's father rushes up to hug her.

"Angela! Promise me you will never fly a plane again," he said.

And Angela didn't--for quite some time. But then, when she was all grown up, Angela didn't decide to be a doctor, or a nurse, or a truck driver.... She learned just the right buttons to push, and she was...