The Little Airplane That Could

A superb story, rich with ASL personification, The Little Airplane That Could is a bilingual storybook app that supports literacy development.

The Little Airplane That Could is a creative adaption of the popular children's classic by Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could. In this adaption, the story centers on two extraordinary show dogs who were scheduled to give a dog show on the other side of the mountain, reachable only by taking an airplane over the peak. As it happens, the dogs' original flight were cancelled! How will they get to their show?

Illustrated in a retro comic book style, The Little Airplane That Could contains rich examples of American Sign Language personifications. This linguistic element is unique to sign languages, in which the storyteller adopts the persona of characters and inanimate objects and takes advantage of cinematic techniques to create an amazing, visually detailed tale.