Customer Reviews

Big Book of Trucks

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I picked up this book as an impulse buy "for my daughter." She seems to enjoy it a lot because of the large, colorful pictures of trucks -- including a mobile home toter, a giant dump truck, trial truck, and a concept truck.

Each picture is well captioned with interesting side notes. For example, the book points out the concrete truck's drum rotates both directions, one to mix the concrete (and prevent it from setting) and the other to pour the mixture out.

It's one of her favorites and she's memorized all of the names (listening to a 24 month old say "mobile home toter" is pretty funny). As she gets older, she'll have more appreciation for the footnotes.

I also appreciate how the book displays trucks from different locales. For example, we don't see any "Road Trains" or "Trial Trucks" in the 'States.

Great Book, its very large with big pictures. I would say the book is 18in long by 12in wide. You just have to watch the book with little ones because it has pages that open out of the book. I bought the book for my 2 year old to play with but now its a book that only mommy can read to him because we don't want to rip it. Would recommend for any truck lover.

The quality of the book is in keeping with other DK publications (the eyewitness guides, etc.). The book is large format and provides an engaging visual reference for kids (and their parents alike).

Parents should keep in mind the following
(a) This is a regular book, i.e. not made exceptionally sturdy for children (it is not a "board" book), so pages can be easily torn-up or wrinkled (made even easier by the large format of the pages)

(b) Most of the trucks shown in the book are unique (e.g. long trailers, racing trucks, etc.), instead of the more everyday varieties that one sees on the street.

Otherwise, my 2-year old son loves the book!

The book I ordered was supposed to be second hand, with possible marks on it, it arrived, free of any marks or problems. Thank you, very impressed, and I think my grandson will be suitably impressed too.

My two year old son LOVES this book. I hate the centerfold. Because of the size of the pages and the thickness of paper, the pages are very easily ripped. This is especially a problem for the centerfold where both pages fold out to reveal a 4 page picture of a heavy recovery truck.

However, the rips and tears are also a testament to how much my son loves this book and the pictures of the all of the trucks. Plus, there's quite a lot of information!

This book is probably really fun for preschoolers to look at, but it certainly seems to be fascinating to the young elementary set, too. And I think it's great that there is a book out there for kids who never quite outgrew the "truck stage." There are lots of detailed captions, vivid, large photographs that older kids can get into, and a nice variety of types of trucks represents. My eight year old uses the book to get ideas for his lego creations and to learn facts about trucks to tell us on road trips.