Review: Diggers

Diggers

Written by Amanda Askew

Publication date: 2010
Publisher: QED Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-84835-464-7

Summary/Back cover:
A bright, fun book about diggers for young readers.  Includes diggers in demolitions, diggers sucking up waste and diggers in mines!

This is not a story book as such, but more like a mini text-book about diggers.  It has a lot of photos of diggers, which appeals to my 2 year old son!  The book tells us about different types of diggers, and introduces such words as 'excavator' and 'bucket attachment' - it is written for little people to understand, but doesn't dumb down the words at all.  It would be a useful starting point for a young school-aged child, if they had to, for example, do a project about diggers.

It's definitely a 'boy' book - although it's not a story book, it's still become a firm favourite at bedtime in this household, but sometimes we just point out interesting things in the photos, rather than reading the text.

My rating: 3 out of 5.  Great if your child loves diggers, but otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Review written by Bronwyn