Dig Dig Digging (Awesome Engines)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841214183 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 24 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Have to read this book every night" according to Roy. Great book for 1 or 2 year old. My boys goes to bed every night after reading this book.. Oh, how my son LOVES this book! My boy was only slightly interested in machinery until we got this book. Now he's pointing out Garbage Trucks, Fire Engines, Diggers, and Road Rollers everywhere we go, and giving the corresponding cheer "gobble, gobble; race, race, racing; dig, dig, digging; roll, roll, rolling."This book has a musical rhythm that makes it fun to read, and the illustrations are gorgeous.. "Cute but uses Austrailan words" according to crystal. I had to return this book because it calls a Trash Truck a "Rubbish Truck" and a Mac truck a "Lorrie". I did not feel that this would be a good book for a baby living in the US.
All the favourites are here in this colourful board book for machine-mad little ones - from diggers and tractors, to cranes, bulldozers and more! With bold illustrations and fun, rhyming text, this sturdy board book is perfect for busy pre-schoolers. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as tractors 'squelch' through the mud and dumper trucks go 'crash!' Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.
. On each spread, Mayo (Wiggle Waggle Fun) offers plenty of colorful adjectives and terse verbs: "Bulldozers are good at push, push, pushing, over rough, bumpy ground, scraping, and shoving." Ayliffe, who explored some of this territory before in The Busy Building Book, pictures two bulldozers, one yellow and the other red, attacking clods of dirt and showing trees no mercy as they maneuver around a hill at precarious angles. A refrain on each spread reminds readers that these distinctive vehicles share at least one similarity: "They can work all day." A final spread of a darkened town full of stilled vehicles demonstrates that even giant trucks and ear