Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers

This original picture book about construction vehicles combines facts and details with funny stories about animal engineers to delight machine enthusiasts of all sizes.

Discover all about excavators, rollers and trucks, tippers and cranes, loaders and lorries, in this big book of over a dozen heavy vehicles. And enjoy all the animals along for the ride.

When Cow wants to give a concert, she transports her piano with a telescopic crane. When Duck and Hen compete over who has the neatest lawn, hand mower leads to lawn mower to combine harvester—that ends the discussion! And what do rhinos like to make in their cement mixer? Pancakes, of course, and here’s the recipe (you’ll need 32,304 eggs).

This original picture book combines funny stories with a perennially popular topic. Explore the detail of engine size and vehicle weight, enjoy the flights of fancy in gyrocopter and cherrypicker, and end the book with a modern fairytale about a tractor who lives happily ever after.

b>About the Author

Ole Könnecke was born in 1961 and spent his childhood in Sweden. He now lives in Germany and has produced more than 30 books, several of which have won international awards.