![\"DSC_0042\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tompalmer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0042.jpg?ssl=1\")
<\/a>Jatinder, Greg, Maddie and Jess are at a football summer camp near an old airfield. \u00a0They mysteriously find themselves propelled back in time. Only if they can learn how to fly the great RAF planes \u2013 the Sopwith Camel, Spitfire and Typhoon, will history will lead them on a flightpath back to the present.<\/p>\n\u201cTom is the RAF Museum\u2019s Writer in Residence. His close relationship\u00a0with the museums and his obsessive eye for detail mean that I was not at all surprised that his Wings books are both highly authentic and hugely exciting. These are Biggles books for the 21st century.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Phil Clayton, Education Office at RAF Museum\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Your books are still massive favourites with the boys especially the Wings series.”\u00a0Birkdale School<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read<\/strong> the first chapters by clicking on the covers below:<\/span><\/p>\n Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order\u00a0<\/strong>from my local independent children\u2019s bookshop \u201cThe Thoughtful Spot\u201d here.<\/a><\/p>\n Assembly & Live Q&A <\/strong>more information here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Read all 3\u00a0books and get a signed certificate. \u00a0Tell me\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/a>\u00a0if you\u2019ve read the whole series and you can receive a special signed certificate.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTyphoon is a great read aimed at 8 to 10 year olds and is a stereotype-breaking brew of the supernatural, football, fighter jets and the relationship between two sisters. \u201c<\/em>\u00a0That Boy Can Teach Blog<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 2017\u00a0Wings: Flyboy<\/a>\u00a0was on the\u00a0longlist for the Leicester Our Best Book award .<\/p>\n \u201cWings: Flyboy is a wonderful, warm tale. Stories highlighting\u00a0<\/em>the diversity of Britain\u2019s troops during both world\u00a0<\/em>wars are rare and this one deserves a wide audience. \u00a0<\/em>It is a cracking read.\u201d Bali Rai<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Wings 1: Flyboy \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Wings 2: Spitfire \u00a0 \u00a0 Click for more information in the Wings Presenter\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTom is the RAF Museum\u2019s Writer in Residence. His close relationship with the museums and his obsessive eye for detail mean that I was not at all surprised that his Wings books are both highly authentic and hugely exciting. These are Biggles books for the 21st century.\u201d Phil Clayton, Education Office at RAF Museum\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Each book comes with a simple model plane you can make yourself!<\/p>\n “Football meets fantasy in Tom Palmer’s phenomenal Wings Trilogy” lovereading4kids<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Colour in all the great RAF planes featured in my children\u2019s series Wings – the Sopwith Camel, Spitfire and Typhoon \u2013 to mark this year\u2019s centenary of the RAF.\u00a0 Download<\/strong> here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hopefully, there will be something to help literacy take off for every child.<\/p>\n Download your pack<\/span> here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Flyboy is like a cross between \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 and \u2018Alex Rider\u2019. I liked the book\u00a0because it was spooky. The main character is Jatinder and the story is about\u00a0World War One. It’s a total page turner! I think it is an amazing book.\u00a0It attaches you to it straight away on the first sentence.”\u00a0Kamran Mustfa <\/strong>Lovereading4kids<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Click on the images below:<\/span><\/p>\n The Wings series have been translated into Swedish. More here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The books were inspired by me and my daughter making an Airfix kit of a Lancaster Bomber two summers ago.<\/p>\n Read<\/strong> my blog about setting it\u00a0<\/span>here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Visit<\/strong> my<\/span> pinterest page<\/a> about how I was inspired to write about the Sopwith Camel, Spitfire and Typhoon<\/span> here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Read<\/strong>\u00a0Wing’s illustrator David Shepherd’s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch<\/strong>\u00a0my\u00a0short Wings<\/em> vlog.<\/p>\nFind out more\u00a0<\/strong>about the three books in the Wings series here:<\/span>
\n1 Flyboy<\/a>
\n2 Spitfire<\/a>
\n3 Typhoon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nRemembrance Day 2020 <\/strong><\/h4>\n
Certificate<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\nAwards & selections:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/a>2016 Wings: Flyboy<\/a> \u2013 was nominated for Leicester Libraries \u2018The Big Friendly Read book list for children\u2019<\/a><\/p>\nBuy Books\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wings 3: Typhoon \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThe Wings series feature:<\/h4>\n
\n
<\/a>Singh Malik from the First World War<\/li>\nModels<\/h4>\n
RAF centenary Colouring Sheet<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nFlyboy : Guided Reading Resource<\/h4>\n
This pack to accompany Flyboy<\/a> is full of different literacy ideas for the classroom, library or at home.<\/p>\nWings posters<\/span><\/h4>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTranslations<\/h4>\nWriting Wings<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/a>I wrote the books with help from\u00a0RAF Museums<\/a>\u00a0as their children’s\u00a0writer in residence<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in the run-up to the RAF\u2019s 100th anniversary in 2018.<\/p>\n