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Tonka Big Book Of Trucks
From the biggest name in toy trucks comes a book that shows all types of real trucks at work in lively scenes. Whether on a farm or at a fire, big trucks have many exciting, big jobs to do. Full color.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1996
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January 15, 2025
Very informative with great pictures! My nephew loves it!
February 23, 2017
My son loved this from ages 3 to 6, until he grew out of the truck phase. It has lots of trucks in themed layouts, with explanatory text-- everything up to the space shuttle transport. Like most Tonka books, though, it's a drag for the adult reader and the trucks are a bit stylized.
July 20, 2016
Patricia Relf, Tonka Big Book of Trucks (Cartwheel Books, 1996)
Points off: copyright information is not contained anywhere in the book; one must go to the Amazon page to get the book's release date.
I thought this one, which is quite oversized and over thirty pages, was going to be too long to hold the Bean's attention. But, at twenty-three months old, he remembered enough from night to night that we kept reading it, and it became the first multi-night book we read. Mostly because of the time investment involved—with his attention span, it usually takes us three or four nights to get through the entire book—it's not one that comes out too often, but we do read it on a sporadic basis (in fact, we're two nights into another reading of it as I write this, and he just passed twenty-five months). It's too bad about the lack of thought put into constructing the title page. While I know that's for parents and not for kids (not to mention for Cartwheel's legal department), it's still valuable information to have, and a lack of complete information there is something I do penalize books for. (I started this for quickie ebooks—I never thought I'd be doing it for “real” print releases, but it's become a regular thing since I started getting back into pre-lit with the Bean, sadly.) ***
Points off: copyright information is not contained anywhere in the book; one must go to the Amazon page to get the book's release date.
I thought this one, which is quite oversized and over thirty pages, was going to be too long to hold the Bean's attention. But, at twenty-three months old, he remembered enough from night to night that we kept reading it, and it became the first multi-night book we read. Mostly because of the time investment involved—with his attention span, it usually takes us three or four nights to get through the entire book—it's not one that comes out too often, but we do read it on a sporadic basis (in fact, we're two nights into another reading of it as I write this, and he just passed twenty-five months). It's too bad about the lack of thought put into constructing the title page. While I know that's for parents and not for kids (not to mention for Cartwheel's legal department), it's still valuable information to have, and a lack of complete information there is something I do penalize books for. (I started this for quickie ebooks—I never thought I'd be doing it for “real” print releases, but it's become a regular thing since I started getting back into pre-lit with the Bean, sadly.) ***
June 17, 2012
Very informative, and easy to understand.
Contents:
Building a house, building a road, on the highway, around town, in the city, on the farm, at the seaport, at the state fair, at a fire, at the space shuttle.
Contents:
Building a house, building a road, on the highway, around town, in the city, on the farm, at the seaport, at the state fair, at a fire, at the space shuttle.
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June 28, 2013Emerson gave a book report on this book yesterday. He loves it.
May 15, 2013
My son loves this book. It has taught both of us the difference between a front loader and a back hoe. We like to shout out the trucks we see as we drive around.
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