Digger, Dozer, Dumper

By: Hope Vestergaard, David Slonim (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 1 August 2013

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Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different - and little readers are invited to fi nd a vehicle that s like them.

Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems - each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow - invite young children to meet their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away. Engaging visual details like an anxious turtle crossing the street just ahead of a steamroller are sure to keep preschoolers poring over the pages as they consider the question, "Trucks as far as eyes can see. . . . Which truck would you like to be?"

About the Author

Hope Vestergaard, a former early childhood teacher, is the author of several books for children. She lives with her husband and two sons, as well as cows, horses, pigs, and dogs, on a small farm outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

About the Illustrator

David Slonim is an award-winning illustrator of many children s books, including The Deer Watch by Pat Lowery Collins. He lives with his wife, four kids, and a dog named Maggie in Indiana.

Industry Reviews

This book is intelligent and informative, with craft, rhythm, great art, and entertainment.
--School Library Journal (starred review)

Adorable multiethnic children are the drivers of these 16 trucks--from construction equipment to city trucks, rescue vehicles and a semi--easily standing in for readers, a point made very clear on the final spread. Varying rhyme schemes and poem lengths help keep readers' attention. ... While there are many rhyming truck books out there, this stands out for being a collection of poems.
--Kirkus Reviews

Vestergaard (Potty Animals) offers 16 poetic tributes to big machines and trucks that should prove deeply satisfying to young connoisseurs and the grownups who read to them. ... Slonim's pictures are rendered in bright acrylics (fire engine red and construction sign yellow prevail) and outlined in appropriately rugged charcoal; their burly cuddliness skews the pages toward younger imaginations.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

[Youngsters] will be captivated by the lively artwork. ... Fun for reading aloud, especially one-on- one.
--Booklist

[T]hese playful verses sing the praises of sixteen trucks and the work they do. The lighthearted acrylic and charcoal illustrations enhance the poems' humor and give their subjects loads of personality. There's some refreshing gender equality, too, as six of the trucks are female.
--The Horn Book

Although Slonim's perky accompanying cartoon illustrations play to a younger crowd, Vestergaard's careful wordsmithery, precise terminology, and sly humor assure that the poems themselves will be appreciated by even more sophisticated listeners. ... Vestergaard changes up her rhyme and meter enough to keeps things interesting, and the scansion is reliable enough to coax even poetry-shy adults into trying a read aloud. Newly independent readers might want to step up to the mic, too, and share in the fun of a high-energy, clanging and banging poetry performance.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

A charming set of rhymes... This is a wonderful addition to the bookshelf of any kid fascinated by big trucks. And who isn't?
--San Antonio Express-News

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