Roadworks
Age 2+
Picture Storybooks
The perfect 'big book' for kids who love trucks, diggers and cranes, with three fun stories, machine facts AND activities!
Load the dirt, load the dirt,
Scoop and swing and drop.
Slam it down into the truck.
Bump! Whump! Whop!
Make a road, demolish an old building and build a new one in this noisy picture book of all things transport, from award-winning creators Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock.
Creators
Sally Sutton has a keen interest in European languages. She has an M.A. (Hons) in German, and also enjoys writing plays for the stage. Her first picture book for Walker Books Australia, Roadworks, won the Picture Book category of the 2009 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and was followed by Demolition and Farmer John’s Tractor. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and two daughters.
Brian Lovelock is a scientist working in the power industry in New Zealand. He has painted all his life but has only recently ventured into the world of book illustration. His previous titles with Walker Books Australia include Your Mother Didn’t Do That! and Roadworks which won the Picture Book category in the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. In 2013, Brian was long-listed for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award for his work on Demolition. In 2014, Flight of the Honey Bee won the LIANZA Russell Clark Illustration Award, was a Storylines Notable Book and was a finalist for the LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
Reviews
A crisp and colorful guide to a road-building project.
San Francisco Chronicle
A truck-lover’s dream come true — repetition, rhyme and onomatopoeia — perfect for read-alouds, it will be a hit whether shared with a group or one-on-one.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Dynamic.
School Library Journal (starred review)
The words pound with the sound and rhythm of the vehicles they describe, and preschoolers will delight in shouting out the noisy exclamations.
Booklist
Kids who love trucks and construction will find an ideal vehicle for their passions.
Publishers Weekly
