A boy builds an airplane from a vacuum cleaner and flies off to rescue his dad. I think it’s to get him home for Christmas. On the way back home they stop off to buy presents for each other, and they buy the boy’s mom some perfume from Paris.
Addition: It’s a picture book – a fairly short story on large, colourful pages. I read it in the 1970s and it seemed of its time. Borrowed from my (then) local library, in fact. Would it help to mention I’m in the UK?
I should mention that this is a child’s picture book.
Hi
Did you ever trace this book
I’m trying to find it on behalf of my brother
Did you see Patrick’s aeroplane suggested
Does that sound right
I have a memory of the cover being orange and blue but that may be another book I’m thinking of
Any help from you or any of the other contributors would be greatly appreciated
I also remember this book from around 1975-1976. I borrowed it from the library and read it several times. I can still see the pictures in my mind and it’s driving me crazy that I cannot remember the name. I do remember that the boy builds the plane using bits and pieces from around the home and has adventures without his mother knowing I think. I would love to read it to my own children.
One day, mother got a letter from daddy
It had come all the way from Africa
Patrick’s daddy was an explorer
And he had just found an island there
My email is annefoth@yahoo.co.uk if you want me to send the photos of the front and back cover and the first couple of pages
Possibly ‘Bored – Nothing to Do’ by Peter Spier (1978)?
“A humorous tale of two bored boys who, when told by their mother to “Go do something outside” decide to build an aeroplane using whatever comes to hand. Needless to say the parents are astounded to find many items around the house missing and that the boys are actually flying.”
I am trying to find the same book. I read it as a child in England and thought I’d google it.
Alas, all I could find was this unsolved query. Not much use to you I’m afraid, but I hope it helps to know there are others out here, who were touched by this story.
Having company certainly set me a-glow.
Hi
I have a few photos of the book if you want to email me
annefoth@yahoo.co.uk
Same here. I read it from the library in the UK.
I thought it was wonderful. Very warm.
He buys perfume for the mother in Paris and a smoking pipe for his father. Nice colored Images. The vacuum hose runs along the side of the plane as a exhaust pipe. This was my favorite book when I was a child.
Has anyone found this book yet? I notice the posts are from 2020. My son has talked about it forever, I would love to find it for him.
Patrick’s Aeroplane. We all loved it too!
Hi
I’ve a few photos of the book I can send you
annefoth@yahoo.co.uk
I’d love to find this book. I remember reading it to my children and would really love to read it to my grandchildren. Thank you
Patrick’s Aeroplane. Epic book
Do you have a copy of this book by any chance
My brother remembers it from the 1960s
He was born 1964 and I’ve noted it was first published in 1967
He remembers the Plane being made from a vacuum cleaner and that the boy flew it to Africa where his father was
It was in a local library in Lowton in the uk
I have some memory of the cover being blue and orange