Diggers Go

by Steve Light

Overview

The excavator goes, "chumma chumma hufft hufft FALUMP." The steamroller goes, "CHUG chug CHUG chug moooooosh." The wrecking ball goes, "BOOOOOM!" Come on down to the construction site and make some noise with eight exciting construction vehicles as they rumble, crunch, chug, and boom their way through this lively book! The oversized format lends itself to the shape of the vehicles and the boisterous text begs to be read aloud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452118642
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	07/23/2013
Series:	Vehicles Go! Series
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 11.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	6 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Steve Light is a teacher and storyteller. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

Light follows Trucks Go and Trains Go with a salute to construction vehicles and the gloriously raucous noises they make. Case in point: “The jackhammer goes, grrrakka kkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakk...” The book’s extra-wide trim size gives the vehicles plenty of room to do their excavating; a front loader chugs along, a bulldozer rumbles and scrunches as it mounds dirt into a pile, and a forklift beeps away as it extends on a vertically oriented spread. Light’s vibrant palette and loose watercolors hum with energy, and readers will be all too happy to growl, crunch, and rumble along with their favorite heavy-duty vehicles. Up to age 2. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"Sound-driven delight."—Readertotz

"Sound-driven delight."—Readertotz

"Sound-driven delight."—Readertotz

"Readers will be all too happy to growl, crunch, and rumble along with their favorite heavy-duty vehicles."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Readers will be all too happy to growl, crunch, and rumble along with their favorite heavy-duty vehicles."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Splendid!"—Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews

"Readers will be all too happy to growl, crunch, and rumble along with their favorite heavy-duty vehicles."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Toddlers will enjoy joining in with the sounds of the vehicles and are sure to extend the fun with pretend play."— Booklist

"Toddlers will enjoy joining in with the sounds of the vehicles and are sure to extend the fun with pretend play."— Booklist

"Splendid!"—Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews

"Splendid!"—Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews

"Toddlers will enjoy joining in with the sounds of the vehicles and are sure to extend the fun with pretend play."— Booklist

From the Publisher

10/01/2013
PreS—This engaging board book features brightly colored paintings of the construction vehicles children love, with sound effects in blocky text. Excavators, forklifts, front loaders, and steamrollers "chug," "beep," "skwee," and "chumma hufft" their way through a busy day of digging. The book adds even more visual interest as the format changes from horizontal to vertical to accommodate tall apparatuses. Toddlers will enjoy joining in with the sounds of the vehicles and are sure to extend the fun with pretend play. An excellent addition to board book collections.—Martha Link Yesowitch, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, NC

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