Truck (Ultimate Sticker Books) [Paperback]

DK Publishing (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Ultimate Sticker Books

DK presents exciting new covers for 13 of your favorite Ultimate Sticker Books: Animal, Baby Animal, Ballet, Bug, Bulldozer, Dangerous Dinosaurs, Dinosaur, Ancient Egypt, Farm, Pony, Shark and Whale, Space, and Truck. Annotated with factual information, each book contains more than 60 full-color, reusable stickers so children can create their own fun scenes.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This "do-it-yourself truck book" offers a simple task for young truck lovers: match the different truck stickers to the right truck outline in an 8- page booklet. Each of these blob-like outlines features a short (15-30 word) caption, such as: "Sharp teeth: The enormous mass excavator scoops up earth or rocks in a bucket attached to its long arm. It then empties the load into a dump truck to be carried away." And thus the hunt begins for a mass excavator among the four removable pages of color-photo stickers! The brightly colored stickers are (to some degree) reusable, and mostly they are between an inch square and 3 inches by 2 inches. There are about twice as many stickers as outlines, so that even a child who really does complete the book (by matching all the outlines to the stickers) will have plenty left for the even greater satisfaction of sticking decorative trucks onto face, furniture, and Fido. But let's be realistic: most children will not complete the book, and will prefer to treat this simply as a great sticker source. Why not? (Ages 3 to 6) --Richard Farr --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: DK CHILDREN (August 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756602394
• ISBN-13: 978-0756602390
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Children's Books > Transportation > Cars & Trucks

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Comparing 2 Truck-sticker books, October 19, 2010

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Stella Thomas "babeliana" (Stanford, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Truck (Ultimate Sticker Books) (Paperback)

I am comparing 2 similar books: one is Truck (Ultimate Sticker Books)by DK Publishing, 2006, and the second is Sticker Activity Trucks (First Learning) by Roger Priddy, 2003. While both are Truck sticker books for children, I give the first a rating of 1 star, and the second of 5 stars.

My toddler was given the Priddy one first, and the experience was fantastic. After he finished to put all stickers in place, I bought the DK one for him. The experience was terrible and frustrating, so I bought a second copy of the Priddy one.

They are both similar in that they are sticker books for children, they have a comparable number of pages, same format, and roughly the same printing quality. Price is close in range, Priddy is close to $6 dollars and the DK is $7 (15% more).

Contents are dramatically different though. Priddy is best in all accounts of design and pedagogy. Pages are color coded, trucks have identifiable names such as "mail truck" or "tractor"both under the sticker and on the page where it supposedly goes. DK on the other hand has a very poor 1-ink green printing on the pages where the sticker go, there are no matching names on the sticker page, and placing page, but instead a long description of some obscure fact. DK has no identifiable names either, but rather opts for a series of pickups with big wheels that where part of such or such race. In quantity Priddy also wins, with 100 detailed images, versus 60 for DK, but the most important of all differences is in that while Priddy includes a shadow image of the truck, on the page where the kid is supposed to place it, DK places a shadow of the sticker, not the truck, which has a lot less detail and resembles a cloud more than a truck. There were many trucks for which we could not even find a placeholder, and I am much older than 3 or 4, for which this books are recommended.

I am considering using these two books as an example of how to solve a book-design problem correctly, or get it all wrong in a class if the subject is appropriate. My spouse who is more accommodating suggested they could do cards with the stickers of the DK book that were not too ugly, but they could not find 24.

The buying recommendation is obvious in this case: buy a Priddy instead of a DK, unless you have a passion for retrofitted pick-ups.

As for us, we are extending our skepticism to all books published under the DK seal, and will look instead for what other ones Priddy has to offer.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars only a few pages, January 3, 2008

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R. Gordon "mommyville" (Montrose, South Dakota United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truck (Ultimate Sticker Books) (Paperback)

Thought this book would be thicker. Perhaps in my last minute shopping frenzy I didn't read the fine print, but it is much thinner than the sticker books I have purchased in the past. I would guess less than 10 pages.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book!, November 1, 2001

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"[e-mail]" (Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate Sticker Book: Truck (Paperback)

It's really a fantastic book. Not only my little boy, but also my wife and I love this book! It's full of fun and knowledge. So, everyone who loves the DIY books can enjoy these series with your little boys and girls!