Construction Zone - Hardcover

Hoban, Tana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068816918X ISBN 13: 9780688169183

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 1999

Synopsis

Crisp, clear, full-color photographs show all the fascinating machines and earthmovers found at a construction site. Even the very youngest readers will want to put on hard hats!

"The roaring power of 13 construction machines is captured in clear, brilliantly colored photographs." -- Booklist

About this title

About the Author:

Tana Hoban's photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in galleries around the world. She has won many gold medals and prizes for her work as a photographer and filmmaker. Her books for children are known and loved throughout the world.

Tana Hoban's photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in galleries around the world. She has won many gold medals and prizes for her work as a photographer and filmmaker. Her books for children are known and loved throughout the world.

From Kirkus Reviews:

From Hoban (Just Look, 1996, etc.), a series of full-page color photographs of construction machinery at work, from a rubber- tired backhoe to a crane with clamshell bucket. There are two pictures of each, one a full view and the other a close-up, most of which are noticeably grainy, lacking the crisp quality associated with Hoban's work. All feature her trademark saturated color, and indeed this book functions as a color concept book, with its succession of red, yellow, and orange behemoths (the blue garbage truck, not exactly in the class of construction machinery, ostensibly takes away rubbish from the site). The names of the machines provide the only text in the main section; a picture glossary includes brief notes on the 13 machines featured. While not as tight as Hoban's other concept books, this will be a winner with kids who have devoured Byron Barton's Machines at Work, Anne Rockwell's Big Wheels, and B.G. Hennessy's Road Builders and who now want real pictures. (Picture book/nonfiction. 3-7) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 068816918X
• ISBN 13: 9780688169183
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 15
• Illustrator: Hoban Tana