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Hope Vestergaard

Digger, Dozer, Dumper Board book – Picture Book, August 2, 2016

by Hope Vestergaard (Author), David Slonim (Illustrator)

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“Rising above the usual singsong name-checking, Vestergaard celebrates not only the jobs these machines perform but also their marvelous mechanics.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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.

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'Intelligent and informative'

—School Library Journal (starred review).

'[Youngsters] will be captivated by the lively artwork'

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This book is intelligent and informative, with craft, rhythm, great art, and entertainment.
—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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Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Board book : 30 pages
ISBN-10 : 0763688932
ISBN-13 : 978-0763688936
Product Dimensions : 7.06 x 0.65 x 7.38 inches
Publisher : Candlewick; Illustrated edition (August 2, 2016)
Reading level : 2 - 5 years
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: #4,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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J. Walton

A fun book about vehicles that makes you wonder "which truck would you like to be?"

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018

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When our little one was a year and a half old we decided that we should work on getting some reading material for him. We came across Digger Dozer Dumper and thought it would be a fun book.

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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A. D. Haverman

Great book for reading and re-reading and re-reading . . . .

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017

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I bought this book as a present for my son (20 months) based on all the rave reviews and his intense big-rig obsession. After receiving it and giving it an initial flip-through, however, I was worried that it wasn't, in fact, all that, and I nearly returned it. It just didn't grab me on my first reading, and I wasn't sure my son would be interested in the specific details of all these different trucks.

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.

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M.Brock

LOVE this book!!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013

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We have almost every single construction book made for kids...and this is our new favorite! The pictures are great, but what I love most is how pleasant it is to READ. All of the rhymes work perfectly and are easy to read out loud. I can't stand when rhyming books don't really rhyme. This one is extremely well written! My 3 year old son wants to read it every day. The other very interesting thing that I love about this book is its use of "he" and "she." Half of the trucks are referred to as he...and the other half as SHE. This is the first kids construction book I've ever seen that assumes the trucks might be girls too. Its a subtle thing, but might be important for someone with a little girl who loves trucks...

I liked this book so much that I've already ordered another one as a gift!

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Jenn

Best of the best - a must-have!

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2017

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I write for a living and can be hard to please when it comes to books, but this is one of the most well-written children’s books I’ve ever stumbled across! The rhyming is superb, with smooth cadence and alliteration to boot! The illustrations are wonderfully appealing. It is educational, as my children now know the names of all the different vehicles. This is a book I read to my 3 and 1-year-old every week, and we never grow tired of it!

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M. Al

This is our favorite digger book

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2017

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If I could speak to every person who has a truck/digger lover at home I would tell them to buy this book. All of us, parents, siblings, grand parents, and care providers are reading to our little people constantly. We want for them to feel the world around them in a myriad of ways and reading is usually a home run. This book holds a perspective that is imperative to all our minds, but esecially when we are young and unable to be self reflective. The gender of the trucks is balanced, the book is very well written ( poetry!), the illustrations are gentle and kind, the message is clear: you can find positivity everywhere you look. Vestergaard brings the diggers to life without tension. She makes their world exciting and explains their jobs comprehensively. My 2 year old son loves this book. He even has me making up songs to the poems because they are fun, intelligent, and they rhyme. Buy this book, it is a good environment to step into for you and your child.

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buyhiselllo

Good book, Distressing Drawings... CEMENT TRUCK?!?!

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018

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This book is really great. My son began looking at it around 18-months and loves it still at nearly 2-yrs old. He can recognize all the machinery and always keeps a keen eye out for the dog who is wearing a hard hat, and always finds himself hidden in peculiar situations. The descriptions all have a clever rhyme and cadence, and I often overhearing my son playing with his toys and attempting to recite the phrases by memory.

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.

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CanadianCuz

American English

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2018

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Lovely book but American English.

W Tam

my toddler son loves this book.

Reviewed in Canada on November 4, 2018

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My toddler son loves this book. It's long, but he can maintain attention almost through the whole things without fidgeting.
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

Radhika

Digger, dumper, dozer, you are a winner!

Reviewed in India on August 23, 2018

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My 3 year old is fond of vehicles and this became his fast favorite. It had vehicles like cherry picker and tow truck; something that I rarely find in other books.

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.

Amazon Customer

Great book

Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2019

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Great book! If you have a kid who is a lover of construction machines this is the book for you. Read as normal, make it into a song, plus it comes with stickers in the back! One of our favorites

JLM

So well done!

Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2020

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So many different trucks! The illustrations are excellent and the rhymes aren’t “forced” like some of our other vehicular books... My 2.5 yr old and 5 yr old and I all enjoyed this one.

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