Digger (Machines A Work Series) ANNOTATION
Illustrations and simple text describe machines that are used in road and house building, forestry, and mining industries.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Climb aboard a backhoe, watch as building is knocked over, and learn how a road is made. Take an up-close look at the wide variety of machines that are used on a building site.
Looking at a variety of machines with a wide range of uses, the Machines at Work series explains how vehicles help people on farms, construction sites, and other busy places. Each of the books answers questions with bright, interesting photographs of machines in different situations to explain how they work and what they do. Complete with plenty of amazing facts on this popular subject, the Machines at Work series is sure to be a hit with young readers and machine enthusiasts. Vroom-vroom!
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Sally J. K. Davies
Digger is the title but this book covers many different types of construction equipment not just the diggers. Excavators, giant jaws, bulldozers for sand, bulldozers for snow, dump trucks, backhoes, log loader, excavator, cement mixer, paving equipment, cherry pickers, cranes, mechanical moles, and old-fashioned construction machines are all featured. Each double page spread highlights a different machine with lots of great color photographs and boxed text chunks give interesting nuggets of information. As with most of Dorling Kindersley Books, the page design is heavy on images and consequently the text is short, concise and easy to read. Sometimes the text playfully dances across the page. In the picture of the mechanical mole, the words whirr . . . whirr . . . whirr . . . whirr . . . whirr," float above the huge tunnel-boring machine. This book includes a glossary, index, and picture gallery to identify different types of machines. "The Machines at Work" series from Dorling Kindersley also includes Airplane, Fire Truck, and Tractor. 2003, Dorling Kindersley, Ages 2 to 8.
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