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Digger, Dozer, Dumper Board book – Picture Book, August 2, 2016
Hope Vestergaard (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems—each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow—introduce young children to their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away. Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different, and little readers are invited to find a vehicle that’s like them.
- Print length30 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.06 x 0.67 x 7.38 inches
- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication dateAugust 2, 2016
- ISBN-100763688932
- ISBN-13978-0763688936
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—School Library Journal (starred review)
Adorable multiethnic children are the drivers of these 16 trucks—from construction equipment to city trucks, rescue vehicles and a semi—easily standing in for readers, a point made very clear on the final spread. Varying rhyme schemes and poem lengths help keep readers’ attention. ... While there are many rhyming truck books out there, this stands out for being a collection of poems.
—Kirkus Reviews
Vestergaard (Potty Animals) offers 16 poetic tributes to big machines and trucks that should prove deeply satisfying to young connoisseurs and the grownups who read to them. ... Slonim’s pictures are rendered in bright acrylics (fire engine red and construction sign yellow prevail) and outlined in appropriately rugged charcoal; their burly cuddliness skews the pages toward younger imaginations.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[Youngsters] will be captivated by the lively artwork. ... Fun for reading aloud, especially one-on- one.
—Booklist
[T]hese playful verses sing the praises of sixteen trucks and the work they do. The lighthearted acrylic and charcoal illustrations enhance the poems’ humor and give their subjects loads of personality. There’s some refreshing gender equality, too, as six of the trucks are female.
—The Horn Book
Although Slonim’s perky accompanying cartoon illustrations play to a younger crowd, Vestergaard’s careful wordsmithery, precise terminology, and sly humor assure that the poems themselves will be appreciated by even more sophisticated listeners. ... Vestergaard changes up her rhyme and meter enough to keeps things interesting, and the scansion is reliable enough to coax even poetry-shy adults into trying a read aloud. Newly independent readers might want to step up to the mic, too, and share in the fun of a high-energy, clanging and banging poetry performance.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
A charming set of rhymes... This is a wonderful addition to the bookshelf of any kid fascinated by big trucks. And who isn't?
—San Antonio Express-News
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Product details
- Publisher : Candlewick; Brdbk edition (August 2, 2016)
- Language : English
- Board book : 30 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0763688932
- ISBN-13 : 978-0763688936
- Reading age : 2 - 5 years
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.06 x 0.67 x 7.38 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31 in Children's Books on Sounds
- #65 in Children's Cars & Trucks Books (Books)
- #89 in Poetry for Early Learning
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About the author

As a kid, I was a book fiend. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on, including encyclopedias, cereal boxes, and "grown-up" books. I lived at the library, checking out the maximum number of books allowed each week and blasting through the summer reading programs. When I exhausted the youth and young adult departments at the library, I walked to the flagship Borders store and read new books, cover-to-cover, in one sitting. (I was gentle, I promise. And all the books I buy now more than make up for my childhood borrowing!)
When I was eight or nine, I wrote this sentence in my journal: When I read a good book I feel like I'm hiding inside it, watching the story happen around me. This is still true today. When I read a great book, I fall right in and I'm oblivious to everything else.
When I was in college, Jane Yolen, Patricia MacLachlan and Jane Dyer visited my Children's Lit class. I distinctly remember thinking, "That's a cool job!" But it didn't occur to me that it could be my job. I was planning to be a psychologist or teacher. I taught in early childhood programs for many years before I considered writing my own stories. After reading hundreds of books to young kids, I was fascinated by their responses to different books. Why did they love books I hated? Why didn't they love books I loved? What made a good book good? Eventually I started putting my own words to paper, and later, that led me here.
It's actually a little odd writing this biography. As a writer, I'm always looking for ways to improve my craft and better understand the writing process, so I'm intrigued by the personal backgrounds of my favorite authors. But as a reader, I prefer not to be aware of the writer at all. I just want to fall into books, and I don't blame anyone else who feels the same way. I hope readers fall into mine.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018
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Every page in this book is nicely illustrated and has a fun poem that describes the functionality of the vehicle that it references. A couple of months after owning this book he went and got it, sat down with it and, before we knew it, he chewed a piece of the corner off of it. In the year and a half that we've had Digger Dozer Dumper it is by far the most read book. Now that he's three, he is even starting to join in on the reading aspect.
If you're looking for a book that is not only fun to read, but can teach your child about what the different vehicles are able to do, then this is a must have for your home library.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018
Every page in this book is nicely illustrated and has a fun poem that describes the functionality of the vehicle that it references. A couple of months after owning this book he went and got it, sat down with it and, before we knew it, he chewed a piece of the corner off of it. In the year and a half that we've had Digger Dozer Dumper it is by far the most read book. Now that he's three, he is even starting to join in on the reading aspect.
If you're looking for a book that is not only fun to read, but can teach your child about what the different vehicles are able to do, then this is a must have for your home library.
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Boy was I wrong. This has become one of our absolute favorite books. My son recites parts of it from memory at random times, and requests it constantly at story time, naming the specific poems he likes best (dump truck, steam roller, ambulance). I love that we can sit and read the entire book, or just jump around and read one or two poems, depending on what mood we're in.
The poems are very, very solid -- the rhythm is good (no clunker lines that force you to adjust your reading speed to make work), the content is interesting, and the lengths are perfect. They certainly stand up to high-frequency repetition. And the pictures are wonderful, with funny details like a dog behind the wheel of a truck, which my son loves to point out.
My 3-year-old daughter also loves to read this with us (her favorite is the cherry picker, which is shown rescuing a cat from a tree). I love that the machines are a mix of male and female, and there are both girls and boys drawn in the pictures. So, to gently refute one review below -- sure, this is a boys' book, but it's just as much a girls' book, too.
HOWEVER some of the illustrations are just awful and not "anatomically correct," which makes this short of a FIVE STAR review. Just look at the cement truck for example.... the cab of the cement truck is correctly positioned at the front of the vehicle, but the cement drum is facing the wrong way. Are you supposed to pour the cement over the Driver?! And look at the hydraulic arm on the garbage truck... there's no practical reason for it to be drawn this way. These illustrations defy logic and the laws of physics, and I fear they will confuse or mislead any budding engineer.
Reading this book too much will make your kid more likely to be a truck driver rather than a truck designer or CEO
of a truck manufacturer.
The writing is very clever and the rhymes are cute. I can easily make them into song lyrics. The book is longer so it makes for a good storytime choice. But each page can be read as a separate story too, which helps if you don't have time to commit to the whole thing.
I appreciate that the characters are both male and female and of different races. And some of the machines are a "her" too. My son loves to find the doggy on each page (but I hope he subconsciously notes the equal gender and racial representation..?).
Bonus: I never thought I would know what a skid steer loader is. But look at Mom now! :)
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All trucks are described using peoms. Since we are Indians my son's mother tongue is not English. So even if I read it to him he doesn't enjoy it much.
On the other hand, my 5 year old daughter who is not into vehicles also surprisingly enjoys this book. Especially the peoms on the last page.


Reviewed in India on August 23, 2018
All trucks are described using peoms. Since we are Indians my son's mother tongue is not English. So even if I read it to him he doesn't enjoy it much.
On the other hand, my 5 year old daughter who is not into vehicles also surprisingly enjoys this book. Especially the peoms on the last page.



He really likes the part at the end when it asks him which truck would he like to be.
Highly recommended for any toddler that likes trucks
