Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book

Name: Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781408345597
Price: 19.99 NZD
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By Margaret Mayo

Series: Awesome Engines

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Summary

Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book by Margaret Mayo is a lively children's book featuring an array of powerful vehicles that are always busy with exciting activities. Each page introduces a new machine, like diggers and dumpers, showcasing their various movements and functions. It's a colourful and rhythmic exploration that captivates young readers with its vibrant illustrations and engaging text.
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Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book

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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this delightful story if you have a little one fascinated by construction vehicles and love rhymes that bring these mighty machines to life. The engaging illustrations and rhythmic text are perfect for young children, making it an ideal read for parents and toddlers to enjoy together.

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A new padded board book edition of the bestselling Dig Dig Digging - the perfect gift for little vehicle fans.

Description

Discover all your favourite vehicles in this busy book of things that go!

With fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork, this bestselling book is jam-packed with diggers, tractors, rubbish trucks, fire engines, cranes, and much, much more.

This special gift edition features a tactile padded cover and sturdy card pages. The perfect gift for little vehicle fans!

Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book by Margaret Mayo is sure to delight young readers with its captivating content.

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Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging Padded Board Book

Discover all your favourite vehicles in this busy book of things that go! With fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork, this bestselling book is jam-packed with diggers, tractors, rubbish trucks, fire engines, cranes, and much, much more. This special gift edition features a tactile padded cover and sturdy card pages. The perfect gift for little vehicle fans! Awesome Engines:...

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Through tunnels rattling, at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! This noisy, busy, bestselling book with fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork is jam-packed with trains, planes, racing cars, sailing boats and more! Awesome Engines: Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! is perfect for machine-mad little ones!

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Fire! Fire! - Emergency! Fire engines racing all the way. Hoses slooshing, water swooshing. Help is coming - it's on the way! This noisy, busy, bestselling book with fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork is jam-packed with emergency vehicles: fire engines, police cars, ambulances, lifeboats, breakdown trucks, rescue helicopters and more. Perfect for machine-mad little ones!

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Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging

Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging showcases diggers that are good at dig, dig, digging. They can work all day! This noisy, busy, bestselling book features fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork. It is jam-packed with diggers, tractors, rubbish trucks, fire engines, cranes, and other favourite machines. Perfect for machine-mad little ones!

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Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Awesome Engines: Dig Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo delights young readers with its vibrant illustrations and rhythmic, bouncy text, perfect for children fascinated by machines. The book is praised for engaging onomatopoeic language and provides plenty of opportunities for discussion and learning. Reviewers highlight its appeal to motor-loving kids who are sure to memorise its catchy phrases.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408345597

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Board book

Date Published: 06 October 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orchard Books

Contributors:

Illustrated by Alex Ayliffe
Illustrated by Alex Ayliffe

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 182.0mm

Height: 184.0mm

Weight: 351g

Pages: 32

Collections

Activity Books and Kits Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids Margaret Mayo Series: Awesome Engines

About the Author

Margaret Mayo (Author)

Margaret Mayo was an acclaimed storyteller and author who wrote more than 50 books for children. Her titles include the bestselling Dig Dig Digging, Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! and Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp! A former teacher, Margaret used her wide-ranging experience with children in her writing.

Alex Ayliffe (Illustrator)

Alex Ayliffe is a bestselling, award-winning writer and artist. Her distinctive papercut illustrations are bright and bold with lots of child appeal. Alex has illustrated many books for children, including the bestselling Dig Dig Digging and Boo Barney, winner of the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award. She lives with her family in Hertfordshire.

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