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Fast, Slow. Let's Go!

Series: ROADWORKS
Brief Description
From the creators of the bestselling Roadworks series, a fresh new celebration of transportation! This is the way we skate along, skate along, skate along, This is the way we skate along on a sunny, funny morning. Borrowing from the childhood perennial and favourite song 'This... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Fast, Slow. Let's Go!

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From the creators of the bestselling Roadworks series, a fresh new celebration of transportation!

This is the way we skate along,
skate along, skate along,
This is the way we skate along
on a sunny, funny morning.

Borrowing from the childhood perennial and favourite song 'This is the way ...', a happy group of children scoot, bike, bus, swing, sail, run and ride their way across town to join a birthday surprise.

Series: ROADWORKS

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760656287

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Walker Books Australia

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Brian Lovelock

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 252.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Sally Sutton is the award-winning and bestselling author of Roadworks, Demolition, Construction, Dig, Dump, Roll and Wheels. In 2009, Roadworks won the Picture Book category of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and in 2015 Construction was a finalist. Sally has also written many other books for children. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and two daughters.

Brian Lovelock is an award-winning illustrator of 10 picture books including the Roadworks series, The Raintrain, Flight of the Honey Bee, Gecko and Ambulance, Ambulance! His illustration awards include Best Picture Book in the 2009 New Zealand Book Awards (for Roadworks) and the 2014 LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for illustration (Flight of the Honey Bee). Brian was long-listed for the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Award for his work on Demolition and in 2019 he was a finalist in the Nami Concours illustration competition. Brian lives in Auckland where he works as a scientist in the power industry.

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