Digger and Skip!
Written and illustrated by Sebastien Braun
Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books
ISBN: 978-0-00-736275-2
Summary/Back cover:
Little Digger tries hard to help out at the building site but it’s not easy when the other machines keep taking over his work. Bang! Clank! Clank! Brrrrm! They may be big and noisy but can they really do a better job than Digger? Go, Digger, go!
A lively and engaging story, jam-packed with colourful vehicles!
Review:
I really like the illustrations in this book. I’m a sucker for images in bold, bright colours with thick black outlines.
The characters are Digger the digger (funny that), Skip the dump truck, Chuck the bulldozer, Basher the demolition vehicle, Roland the roadroller and Grabber the truck crane. Each character has an associated noise as indicated on the back cover summary: “dig”, “whirr”, “heave”, “bash”, “brrrm”, and “clank”, respectively. So, it’s primarily aimed at those children with a penchant for machinery vehicles.
The theme of the story is that we’re all important in our own ways and that when we each work together using our special skills that is when the teams we belong to will have the most success.
It’s a nice book but I feel like it’s missing a little something that would make it a great book. Maybe it reads a little too much like a moral lesson to me. If that doesn’t bother you, though, then you’ll probably really like this story.
My rating: 3.5 out of 5
Review written by team_s
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