Loopy, by Hardie Gramatky

“Little Toot” wasn’t his only children’s character. Two years later Hardie Gramatky wrote and illustrated another story about a child-like airplane (who looks a lot like the red-cheeked tugboat) — called Loopy!. “Loopy is a small airplane,” the first page announces – “the kind that flyers cheerfully call a hedgehopper.” A picture shows the speeding […]