Diggers

by Fiona Watt

A large-format touchy-feely board book for toddlers and young children. It features pictures of diggers digging holes in different places such as on a farm, on a building site and in the middle of the road. There are tactile patches on every page.

6 pages, Board Book

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books.
Fiona graduated from Exeter University with a B.Ed. (Hons.), specialising in Psychology and Art and Design. After university she worked as a researcher and writer for a company which published educational material for places where children went on school visits (zoos, museums, stately homes etc). She then taught seven, eight, and nine year olds for five years; three years at a state school in Sevenoaks in Kent, and two years at The British School in the Netherlands in The Hague.

Having joined Usborne in 1989, Fiona became an editorial director in 2003, largely responsible for writing baby and novelty books, as well as art and activity titles. She has written over 100 titles for Usborne Publishing, perhaps most notably the, ‘That’s not my ….‘ touchy-feely series.

Reviews

[Isha Barrie]

This is a great book for toddler children to get started with reading. This books students to learn new vocabulary words and also to feel the texture of different objects that would would find in a construction zone such as tar, or the the bumps on a tire.

[mollie · Rating 4 out of 5]

How do i rate a book intented for toodlers? Lol
I figured i'd start marking the books i read with my little brother.
This may or may not be an effort to boost the number on my goodreads challenge.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

I believe that these possessed diggers must have rid the world of the infestation known as humans. It would be the only explaination for the lack of humans in this story. I think if we take out their leader (the boss at the end) we have a chance, they seam to be cumbersome and slow.

[Ubalstecha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outstanding textured book about backhoes. The bigger format of this board book means that the author/publisher has put more than one texture on each page. Hours of fun for a baby.