DK Readers: Big Machines (Level 1: Beginning to Read) - Hardcover

Wallace, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789454122 ISBN 13: 9780789454126

Publisher: DK Children, 2000

Synopsis

Demonstrates how the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and other construction machines all play a part in building a new park

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Review

"Smash! Crash! Scrape! Scrunch!... BIG machines do BIG jobs." Whether they're knocking down an old factory or building a new park with a pond, there's a big machine for every job. Cranes, bulldozers, excavators, and concrete mixers are put to the test, knocking down walls, scooping up rubble, and digging holes.

Eye-catching photographs and illustrations and simple, repetitive text in large type make the absorbing world of heavy machinery a perfect choice for the beginning reader. Dorling Kindersley's four-level learning-to-read series offers age-appropriate stories for all the early reader levels, preschool through grade 4. Children develop their reading skills while increasing their general knowledge. This Level 1 book includes picture dictionary boxes depicting such terms as "rubble," "wheel," and "chute," with a reference to the page number where the word first appears. (Ages 4 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author

Karen Wallace is the author of numerous children's books, one of which, Think of an Eel, won the Kurt Maschler Award. She also writes children's television scripts, as well as natural history programs and documentaries. She lives in England with her husband, novelist Sam Llewellyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789454122
• ISBN 13: 9780789454126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32