By DK
The big fact book for the child who wants to know everything: enormous photos of real diggers, trucks, and cranes with the names and jobs to match.
This is the one where the trucks get real. Big, glossy DK photographs show actual working machines - excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, cranes, tractors, fire engines - each with a simple label and a few plain facts about what it does and how big it is. There's no story to follow; it's a browse-anywhere fact book built for a child who's moved past 'what's it called' to 'how does it work' and 'how heavy is it.'
For the child whose truck obsession has turned into a hunger for facts, this is the payoff - real machines, real photos, real numbers, the way DK does it. It grows with them: at four you read the labels aloud, and by seven or eight they're reading the facts to you and quoting them at dinner. It's the book on the shelf that rewards knowing, not just looking.