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Demolition

By Sally Sutton
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Demolition follows the exciting process of bringing an old building down with noisy machines and busy workers. Through rhythmic, rhyming text, children experience the thrill of thumping, smashing, and whacking as top floors tumble to the ground. The story continues with loading trucks, lifting and shifting debris, and finally transforming the site into a new playground.
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Format: Hardback
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Ideal for preschool-aged children, especially those who enjoy rhythmic storytelling and lively illustrations exploring construction and demolition themes.

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Swing the ball. Swing the ball. Thump and smash and whack. Bring the top floors tumbling down. Bang! Clang! Crack! Load the trucks. Load the trucks. Lift and shift and heap. Drive away the piles of junk. Whump! Whop! Beep! Busy workers and noisy machines demolish an old building and build a new playground.

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Swing the ball. Swing the ball. Thump and smash and whack. Bring the top floors tumbling down. Bang! Clang! Crack!

Load the trucks. Load the trucks. Lift and shift and heap. Drive away the piles of junk. Whump! Whop! Beep!

Busy workers and noisy machines demolish an old building and build a new playground in this fun picture book from the award-winning team of Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock.

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Praised for its appealingly extreme onomatopoeia and simple rhyming verses, this picture book invites listener repetition. Brian Lovelock's bright illustrations complement the lively text, making it an engaging read. Kirkus Reviews calls it "smashing good fun for preschoolers of both genders."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921529269

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 March 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: Walker Books Australia

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Brian Lovelock

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 257.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 32

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Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Sally Sutton

About the Author

Sally Sutton has a keen interest in European languages. She has an M.A. (Hons) in German, and also enjoys writing plays for the stage. Her first picture book for Walker Books Australia, Roadworks, won the Picture Book category of the 2009 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and was followed by Demolition and Farmer John’s Tractor. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and two daughters.

Brian Lovelock is a scientist working in the power industry in New Zealand. He has painted all his life but has only recently ventured into the world of book illustration. His previous titles with Walker Books Australia include Your Mother Didn’t Do That! and Roadworks which won the Picture Book category in the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. In 2013, Brian was long-listed for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award for his work on Demolition. In 2014, Flight of the Honey Bee won the LIANZA Russell Clark Illustration Award, was a Storylines Notable Book and was a finalist for the LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.

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