World Book Day saw Emirates launch their first ever book for children

Emirates has launched its first ever children’s book – Monkey on a Plane! The mastermind of award winning author-illustrator duo Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, the book is designed to encourage families to get creative and take inspiration from their holidays and aims to get people excited about travelling during their story time.

Philip and Sarah took inspiration for the book from a story written by Maddison Penney, aged four from Dorset, who last year won the opportunity for her idea to be created into a book. Monkey on a Plane! tells the story of intrepid explorer Enrico the monkey who is bored of living in the forest with his cheeky brothers and sisters, so packs a suitcase to board a plane and embark on a great adventure.

Commenting on the book, Maddison Penney’s mother said: “Maddison is absolutely besotted to see her ideas with such amazing illustrations and for the book to be written and designed by such talented people! Maddison loves reading stories and has such an amazing imagination, so to see those ideas being turned into such a magical story is a dream come true. Since Maddison won the competition it has inspired her to continue writing, and I really hope the book inspires other children to do the same.”

The book is illustrated beautifully and is looking to encourage young children to use their own imagination through a series of creative and writing tasks such as writing their own travel-inspired story or drawing their own money.

The book is available to download and read from the Emirates Flight Time Stories website here.
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