Mighty Machines: Truck

Mighty Machines

by Claire Llewellyn, Mike Dunning (Photographer)

Looks at a variety of trucks, including giant dump trucks, bulldozers, wheel loaders, scrapers, pavers, forklifts, mass excavators, and backhoes.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

24 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1995

About the author

Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize.

Reviews

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The DK books are really the gold standard for informational children's books about trucks. Simple enough main descriptions (which I read to my two-year-old) are enhanced by lots more detailed information for older kids. The photographs are crisp, glossy and gorgeous.

[SBC · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book published by Puffin Books is also noted to be "A Dorling Kindersley Book" and was first published in Great Britain by DK in 1995.

I don't have any interest in vehicles, but my toddler son loves them, so we have read this book quite a few times. It is presented in a bright and interesting way, with each double spread containing a large photograph of a type of truck or other building machine, with small text bytes and some handdrawn cartoonish pictures with fun facts.

We also own the Fire Engine and Aeroplane book in this Mighty Machines set.

[Rose]

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