Amazing Machines: Tough Trucks - Softcover

Mitton, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447212703 ISBN 13: 9781447212706

Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Trucks are tough and sturdy. They take on heavy loads, then thunder on their giant tyres down long and heavy roads. Rumble down the road with a team of chirpy animal truckers in this lively picture book. Zippy wordplay, zappy art, plus a picture dictionary make learning about trucks fun!

About this title

Review:

Kathleen Karr - Children's Literature
The "Amazing Machines" collection for tots covers vehicles that roar and grunt, fly and sail, or merely shove and carry. Done up in tidy verse, with characters that borrow quite a bit from Richard Scarry, the page-turners are colorfully illustrated and sport reinforced binding with a fair amount of wear in it. Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse display their stuff driving heavy eighteen-wheeler rigs--not to mention garbage trucks, dump trucks, tankers (carrying milk, of course), and tow trucks for when the others break down. Along the way youngsters get to peek into cabs and truck stops, as well as learn the usefulness of CB radios. A one-page picture dictionary completes the package. The set should be just the ticket for the nursery school market. 2003, Kingfisher, Ages 3 to 5.
Children's Literature
The set should be just the ticket for the nursery school market.

Children's Literature 
The set should be just the ticket for the nursery school market.

The set should be just the ticket for the nursery school market.

About the Author:

Tony Mitton is a widely anthologized children's poet, as well as a teacher and performing poet. His Royal Raps won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Children's Book Award. His recent collection of poetry, "Plum," won the Publishers Weekly 2003 Cuffies Award for Best Book of Poetry. Tony teamed with illustrator Ant Parker on several books, including "Dazzling Diggers," "Roaring Rockets," and "Terrific Trains."

Ant Parker studied drawing and printing at the Bath Academy of Art in England and has taught papermaking, printing and bookbinding workshops for children. Toddlers and parents around the globe have discovered the irresistible appeal of his wacky cartoon characters in "Flashing Fire Engines," "Terrific Trains," "Dazzling Diggers," and "Roaring Rockets."

About this edition

• Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447212703
• ISBN 13: 9781447212706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Parker Ant