Flip! How The Frisbee Took Flight. Margaret Muirhead. Illustrated by Adam Gustavson. 2021. [April] 32 pages. [Source: Review copy]
First sentence: For centuries, folks have been flipping for flying discs. Did cave kids reel round rocks? Maybe. Did the most macho of the Ancient Greeks flick discs? Certainly. But who really invented the thrilling, top-selling toy that came to be called the Frisbee?
Premise/plot: Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight is a nonfiction book for children about the invention of the Frisbee. The book offers two behind-the-scenes glimpses of how this craze--this toy--took off. First highlighting Joseph P. Frisbie and his pie pans in New England starting in the 1920s, and then highlighting Fred Morrison and his eventual-wife Lu who began playing around with popcorn tins, pie pans, cake pans, etc. in the 1930s in California. It was Morrison's passionate obsession--lasting decades--that led to the plastic product...but it was the name FRISBEE that stuck! (Frisbee sounds so much better than PLUTO PLATTER, don't you think?!
My thoughts: I enjoyed this nonfiction book! I didn't know that the Frisbee was manufactured/distributed by the same toy company that had great success with the Hula Hoop. Of course that wasn't the only I Didn't Know moment the book offers.
You can watch a short video aired originally on Decades about the Pluto Platter/Frisbee.
© 2021 Becky Laney of Young Readers
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