By Sally Sutton
The loud one: wrecking balls, diggers, and dump trucks knock an old building down and clear the whole site, in big crashing sound words your child will shout with you.
A crew rolls onto an old building with every big machine there is - the wrecking ball, the excavator, the bulldozer, the dump trucks - and knocks it all down, floor by floor, then hauls the rubble away and, at the very end, plants a park where it stood. The whole book is built on huge sound words: 'CRUNCH! MUNCH! SCRUNCH!' Your child gets the thrill of watching things smash, and then the satisfying turn of watching something new go up in its place.
For the truck-obsessed child who is really in it for the power - the smashing, the hauling, the sheer size of the machines - this is the book that delivers. It's noisy and kinetic in the best way, and the sound words make it a full-body read-aloud. And it lands somewhere kind: the wrecking is only half the job, and the site ends up a park, so the demolition builds toward something good.