By Hope Vestergaard
A little poem for every machine: sixteen trucks and diggers, each with its own bouncy verse about the job it does.
This one gives sixteen different machines a short poem apiece - the digger, the bulldozer, the dump truck, the fire engine, the tow truck, the street sweeper - each one telling you in a bouncy few lines what it does and how it feels doing it. The trucks have personalities: one's proud, one's messy, one's a show-off. It's part vehicle guide, part poetry, and it works whether you read one truck at bedtime or the whole fleet in a row.
It feeds the collector in a truck-loving child - here are sixteen machines, all named, all doing their real jobs - and it does it with rhymes lively enough to want again. The bite-size poems mean you can match it to any mood or any length of bedtime. And by giving each truck a personality, it turns a list of vehicles into a cast of characters your child gets to know.