This is an especially good book for the primary social studies standard about all people playing a role in the community. I like the diversity in the book. It is a must have series for career studies in younger classrooms.

I really enjoyed this book. It was different than anything else I've read recently. I couldn't put it down! I will keep an eye out for this author's future work!

Have you ever heard of a MedEvac rescue helicopter? In both cities and rural areas people who need to be moved to hospital are tended by Flight Nurses and the crew. This book shows who is on the team and how they work together for good. There is a glossary, a few URLs, and an index.
The illustrations by Tom Heard are clear, imaginative, colorful, and informative.
Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to anyone, but especially to a school or your local public library!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Mayo Clinic Press Kids via NetGalley. Thank you!
Available 26 Mar 2024

Cute lille book with nice illustrations about what it means to be a flight nurse. The main character is a black woman, sporting a protected hairstyle which is also lovely to see. It would have been nice to see a bit more inclusion, e.g. a woman sporting a hijab or having the flight nurses attend to someone with a disability. And it did not have to have practically all of the characters featured in this book in some professional capacity be women.. That was a bit much.
I liked the format of "a day in the life of...". It works very well and has a nice flow to the story.
I am unsure how I feel about the inclusion of the interview with the actual flight nurse in the end. I can see the benefits of it being there, as it grounds the story a lot more in reality.

A fun book about an interesting occupation. Great for the classroom to teach students about different types of jobs

This is a good introduction to kids about what does a flight nurse do. The illustrations are colorful and engaging as well.

A great intro to flight nurses. Would be a good book to read during career days to younger students. Basic, yet entertaining and highly informative. Wonderful pictures. Motivational and inspiring. Highly recommend.

I received an advanced review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Part of a series of well-done books for the very young, that detail the career of a medical hero. This time round it's a nurse on an air ambulance, so we see the gear they tote in their helicopter, who they work with, and then get shown a 'typical' shift, which tends towards the young ill and injured that the target readership can relate to. This isn't designed to make you want to be a flight nurse, as such, but will certainly reassure that people can help when you collapse in a remote location, need ferrying from A to B or have a bee-sting that causes a serious reaction miles from anywhere. Fine illustrations, a nice way of presenting the first person voice of a fictional medical expert, and an interview with a living and breathing one – this is worth considering.

Excellent. I will be looking into purchasing a set for our library. This title is appropriate for children 5 - 12, which is quite a large age range, but I could see scaffolding the amount of information for each age as feasible. There is more detail than many similar series nonfiction books, which tend to offer one brief sentence per page with a single illustration. Instead, this book offers different perspectives, a day in the life, and some examples of professions that would collaborate with a flight nurse.

I read this with my daughter during tummy time (for reference she is about a month old). This is perfect for older children especially. Smaller children may be a little bit more antsy as it is a bit wordier than other children’s books. But my husband and I both loved the story. We felt as though it offered a good look into what it would be like to be a flight nurse and will definitely share it again with our daughter as she grows older. It’s great to have a positive role model that one can encounter in real life. We also loved that at the end of the book, there was an interview with a real flight nurse. Overall we really enjoyed the book and will definitely be purchasing it for our child.

Review to come to blog closer to release day.

I received these books from the publisher/Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

Since these two books are pretty much the same only with different information I thought I would bundle the reviews together. 

In these two books we learn all about being a Flight Nurse and a Paramedic! With Paramedic I knew a lot of things already, but the Flight Nurse I learned a lot from. Both books were really interesting to read and I love the format, picture book with simple but good information, perfect for the younger kids who want to know more about certain jobs. 

I am really glad I was able to get these books from Edelweiss and learn more about these jobs. Neither would be for me, haha, I would love to help people and flying in a helicopter/plane sounds totally awesome, but it is those 12 hour days, nope. After two of those I would just sleep permanently. XD But I am proud of the people who are able to do these jobs and help out others. I love that next to reading about the jobs and what they do and how their equipment works, we also get to see several cases that these two jobs go to. From allergies to heart problems. It was really interesting to read and see them go to work. 

I also loved the interviews at the back with real life Paramedics + Flight Nurses. That was a really nice touch. 

The illustrations were terrific, I love the style, but I also love the amount of diversity in the pictures. 

All in all, I cannot wait to see what is next in the Health Heroes series and I will definitely be checking them out. I would recommend these two books to everyone, perfect for the little ones who are curious!

I really enjoyed this book and I thought that it was a great way to introduce what a Flight Nurse does to young children. We live on the flight path for the Air Ambulance where we are so it was a great way to talk about that with my daughter as we (sadly) often see it called out.

The book was fun and informative, the illustrations were nice and clear, bright and engaging.

The book is a basic introduction but I liked the pages where they had the spotlight on someone who actually works in the role.

It is 4 stars from me for this one – highly recommended!

I enjoyed reading this book with my son. I am an ER nurse and have shown my son where the helicopter lands at the hospital. He is fascinated by it. This was a great book to introduce my son to what flight nurses do. He wants to be a flight nurse now.

Am I the target audience for this book? No. I truly appreciate being accepted to review this book. I work in a field with flight nurses but not any of the jobs listed. I believe these to be good examples of some of the situations they deal with. I appreciate the goal of this book in preparing kids that might have to see a helicopter in a scary situation. I think this will be good even when the child isn't the patient but a parent or friend is. I think it will give the child comfort to understand what is going on and that their loved one is in good hands. I was surprised to not see car accidents in this book.
Thank you to NetGalley, Lauren Kukla & Mayo Clinic Press Kids for this ARC. These are my honest opinions. This book comes out March 26th!

This is part of a series of extremely short picture books on careers in the medical field. I can’t remember reading a picture book about flight nurses before, so this is a good topic for a career book. I appreciated seeing the diversity of the team members described, but wished to see the flight nurse’s job more fully developed.