Roadworks
With 25+ ROADWORKS stickers, a boisterous picture book full of noisy fun for machine-mad kids.
Load the dirt, load the dirt, scoop and swing and drop. Slam it down into the truck. Bump! Whump! Whop!
Tip the stones, tip the stones, lift and slide and dump. Lay the groundwork for the road. Crash! Roar! Thump!
Celebrate everyone’s favourite picture book for machine-mad kids with this edition that includes 25+ ROADWORKS stickers!
Creators
Sally Sutton is the award-winning and bestselling author of Roadworks, Demolition, Construction, Dig, Dump, Roll and Wheels. In 2009, Roadworks won the Picture Book category of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and in 2015 Construction was a finalist. Sally has also written many other books for children. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and two daughters.
Brian Lovelock is an award-winning illustrator of 10 picture books including the Roadworks series, The Raintrain, Flight of the Honey Bee, Gecko and Ambulance, Ambulance! His illustration awards include Best Picture Book in the 2009 New Zealand Book Awards (for Roadworks) and the 2014 LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for illustration (Flight of the Honey Bee). Brian was long-listed for the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Award for his work on Demolition and in 2019 he was a finalist in the Nami Concours illustration competition. Brian lives in Auckland where he works as a scientist in the power industry.
Reviews
Extensive use of action verbs and onomatopoeic exclamations… dynamic.
School Library Journal (starred review)
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)
Exuberant.
Publishers Weekly
The words pound with the sound and rhythm of the vehicles they describe, and preschoolers will delight in shouting out the noisy exclamations.
Booklist
Brilliant narrative backdrop.
Chicago Tribune
