Dig Dig Digging (Awesome Engines) - Hardcover

Mayo, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408330113 ISBN 13: 9781408330111

Publisher: Orchard Books, 2013

Synopsis

Diggers are good at did, dig, digging. They can work all day! This noisy, busy, bestselling book with fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork is jam-packed with diggers, tractors, rubbish trucks, fire engines, cranes and other favourite machines. Perfect for machine-mad little ones!

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Mayo is an acclaimed storyteller and author of several bestselling children's titles. A former teacher, she uses her wide-ranging experience with children in her writing. She lives in Brighton. Alex Ayliffe is a well-known children's book illustrator, whose distinctive papercut illustrations have great child appeal. Her board book Boo Barney won the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award.

From School Library Journal:

reSchool-K-Bold, bright spreads present visual word poems about large trucks, tractors, and cranes and the work they do. Often the shape of the rhyme reflects the action performed by the machine. For example, the bold, black print describing fire engines arcs and curves like the water splashing from the fireman's hose. Text about the bulldozer bumps across the page. "Bulldozers are good at push, push, pushing, over rough, bumpy ground, scraping and shoving." The verse on every page ends with the refrain, "They can work all day." Although not all of the rhymes are equally satisfying, they successfully move readers from page to page, truck to truck. The large, simple images in vivid colors and wide, uncluttered spreads will appeal to young children. Stylized skyscrapers dot the horizon in contrasting colors of purple and pink or blue and white, against very blue, sunny skies. The people are all Lego-like in appearance. The last spread, at the end of a very busy book, quiets its colors, with motors off and machines at rest. This book will rev the engines of those youngsters who love vehicles.
Alice Casey Smith, Sayreville Public Schools, Parlin, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408330113
• ISBN 13: 9781408330111
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 14