Big Book of Trucks (Hardcover)

by DK Publishing (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The strongest, fastest, most powerful trucks on the move! This fun book features some of the world's most bizarre and amazing vehicles and contains large, posterlike spreads plus fascinating facts about each truck, including an amphibious truck, a logging truck, and a jet-engine truck. With full-color photographs and gatefold spreads that show highlighted vehicles in detail, this is the ultimate book for every truck lover, young or old.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: DK CHILDREN (October 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789447398
• ISBN-13: 978-0789447395
• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 10.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,809 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice large illustrations of a variety of big trucks, August 20, 2000

By	Jim Carson "http://www.jimcarson.com" (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mom of 2, January 9, 2007

By	Mom of 2 (Michigan) - See all my reviews

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for big kids, too!, December 16, 2007

By	P. Gould (Colorado) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.