See over 14,000 different airplanes, including fighter planes, passenger planes, historic planes, helicopters, gyrocopters, home-built planes and much more. Learn how planes fly and how they maneuver in the air. Ride with skilled aerobatic stunt pilots as they spin and twirl their planes in loops and rolls. And you'll get to watch planes take off and land, including a B-17, a 747 and the supersonic Concorde. And the best part is you'll even get to see a wingwalker.

Your child will experience a highflying adventure in Oskosh, Wyoming, where they will learn about planes and jets of all shapes and sizes. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) hosts one of the biggest air shows in the world with more than 14,000 planes on display. Children will learn about "Bernoulli's Principle of Flight" which will grab your child's attention and explain how planes fly. A diagram lights up the screen with important terms and easy to understand narration. This video also offers lots of information on different types of planes and the stories of the people who fly them. Plane owners and pilots are interviewed and encourage and motivate young children to explore their dreams.

Your child will be fascinated by the flips, dips, and twirls of the planes. They will likely have many questions about how such things are possible and you can feed their curiosity by watching with them and answering their questions. The music, information, and images will create an atmosphere of excitement and exploration for both you and your child.

I watched this video with five-year-old Lucca, and a lot the information was new to both of us. Together we oohed and awed at the crazy things pilots can do with the planes. Part way through the video, Lucca grabbed one of his model planes and had it buzzing and swirling along with the planes on screen.

--Kendall

Filmmaker William VanDerKloot was watching kids' videos with his children. He was disappointed with what he saw... and what he didn't. With a few notable exceptions, most children's videos were poorly done and overly simplistic. "It seemed as if very little effort was put into the research or production of those products," said VanDerKloot. "Many looked like amateur home videos."

Then he got an idea.... A Peabody award-winning director/producer, VanDerKloot decided to produce one himself. The first subject came to him while driving past the Atlanta airport in a car full of children. As they drove down I-75, a giant plane took off overhead. Immediately VanDerKloot was bombarded with questions from the kids, "What kind of plane is that?" How fast is it going?" "How many passengers are in it?" The Big Plane Trip, the first video in The Big Adventure Series®, was born.

But VanDerKloot did not want to make a simplistic video "just for kids." Each subsequent video in the series, is constructed with various levels of information so that an entire family, from the youngest to the oldest, can enjoy and learn something new with every viewing. "There is something that happens when you become a parent," says VanDerKloot. "You begin to look at the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly the normal becomes the extraordinary and you see things in a whole new way."

The Big Adventure Series® shows how things work with a child's sense of wonder. And who better to critique an adventure-in-progress than kids themselves. The team at Little Mammoth holds a number of screenings for children's groups while videos are in their rough edit stage. Utilizing the input, the videos are modified. The results are productions that have received national acclaim from the critics, and most importantly, from families and children.

This hard work has paid off. The BIG Adventure Series®, which is now sixteen titles strong, has received dozens of awards and citations from such organizations as Parent's Choice, Kids First!, Video Librarian, CINE, and International Monitor Awards.