Dig Dig Digging - Hardcover

Mayo, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805079858 ISBN 13: 9780805079852

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

Busy machines for busy kids!

"Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging,
scooping up the earth and lifting and tipping.
They make huge holes with their dig, dig, digging.
They can work all day."

Trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters-they all like to work hard. But after a long, happy day of beep-beeping and vroom-vrooming, even the busiest engines need to rest. This bright, bouncy, noise-filled book brings together all the vehicles that children adore.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Mayo has written a number of books for children. She lives in Brighton, England, with her husband and three children.

Alex Ayliffe has illustrated many books for children. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Australia, and currently lives in Hertfordshire, England.

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
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0805079858
• ISBN 13: 9780805079852
• Binding: Board book
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Ayliffe Alex