Get to Work, Trucks!

by Don Carter

Book Overview

Join eight hardworking machines for a day at the building site. Don Carter combines the irresistible lure of heavy machinery with simple learning concepts and bright dimensional art -- as vivid and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761315438
• ISBN13: 9780761315438
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

A great book for little boys

My 2 year old loves this book because of the pictures of all the construction vehicles in action. The text is a little too simple and does not seem to flow very well for my taste.

This is a fabulous book!

My son has been into trucks since he was 6 months old. I bought this book for him last year (when he was one) and it quickly became a favorite! It's the only book we even took on our vacation last summer, because we knew he would never tire of it. We did, however, so now we have made up a tune to the book and sing it as a song. My son loves "reading" the book to us, singing the song,and when he plays in his sandbox, he recites the book as he is playing with his tractors "digger digs hole" "bulldozer fills hole." I'm not sure I really appreciate the book at his level, but then again, I don't get how a 2 year old boy can be fascinated with the wheel on a touring bus! If you're thinking about it, just buy it -- I don't think you'll be sorry you did!

Hardworking Trucks.....

Get up early in the dark, quiet morning, and join the workers traveling to the worksite. It's time to "get to work, trucks!" There are big trucks and little trucks, busy all day, and hard at work. Meet the loader and the dump truck. Watch the digger dig a deep hole, and the bulldozer push dirt into other holes. The cement mixer is hard at work mixing and mixing. The crane lifts beams high in the sky, and the roller flattens the road on the ground. And as a special treat, see if you can find the visitor on each page who just can't get enough of heavy equipment.... Don Carter's simple, descriptive text, written in short sentences, is kept to a minimum. The real story is told through his bold, bright, and busy, eye-popping illustrations. Each two page spread dazzles with vivid color, texture, energy, and humor, and little ones will be itching to hop aboard the dump truck, or maybe the bulldozer, or crane, and get right to work. Perfect for preschoolers, Get To Work Trucks is an engaging and informative little gem of a book, that's sure to become an instant favorite at your house.

Great for Storytime!

Using acrylic paint, foam board and plaster to create his colorful illustrations, the artist and author has created an entertaining look at the heavy equipement needed to build a bridge. Each double-paged spread has one or two sentences describing the action. A turtle who gets in the way of the construction workers is never mentioned, but provides humorous visual action in the story. Although the illustrations appear bold and simple, there is enough detail to invite close inspection of each picture. This will work very well as a book for a child to look at alone, and for use in group sharing, such as storytime.