"He stretched out his shovel and took a big bite. Then he lifted, he twisted, and he flung with delight.' With a soothing rhythmic flow and bright visuals, Digger Dan takes 1-4 year olds through the day in a life of a digger working at a quarry. If you have a child fascinated with machines, diggers, trucks and dirt, they will be engaged by Digger Dan.
Every morning Digger Dan and his friends go to Digger Day Care. But this morning is very special. The Mice have a building plan and every little vehicle has their very own task to complete. Leo the Wheel Loader lifts a heavy stone. Digger Dan digs and digs, piling sand higher and higher while Theo the little dumper truck carries a load of pretty balloons and Carley Crane helps wherever she can. When the big project is done, everyone is so excited to see their big, beautiful creation! Can you guess what the little vehicles built?
The simple life does still exist in the twenty-first-century. Join Deep Digger Dan on the adventure of his life! Our reluctant hero is a loner, unlucky in love, unemployed, and living in a static motorhome on the beautiful coast of Yorkshire. All he wants is to be left alone to work, drink beer, smoke a few cigarettes and enjoy the world's most misunderstood hobby - metal detecting. But everything changes when he's asked to track down a stolen hoard of diamonds from a famous London jewellery heist that happened fifty years ago... And so begins a wild adventure that spans the length and breadth of a small part of Yorkshire! Will Dan finally make something of his life? Why does he always shout the words 'Come on, get in?' Will he find the stolen diamonds and stamp his name on the metal detecting hall of fame? Why does he always make mental notes to himself? Will he succeed in turning the heads of the hottest girls in Yorkshire? Will he become an airline pilot like his auntie wants him to? All these questions, but probably no others will be answered! Follow Dan's hilarious and exciting adventures through life, metal detecting, and trying to fit into a modern world and rat-race that he just can't relate to. Adventures aren't made like this anymore! Come on, get in!
Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! When sisters Usha and Aarti look up at the stars, they see different things. Aarti sees the Big Dipper, but Usha sees the Big DIGGER. And cousin Gloria sees the Big Kite! Could they all be right? A playful introduction to geometry and spatial relationships, featuring Indian American characters and a note about cultures and constellations. Storytelling Math celebrates children using math in their daily adventures as they play, build, and discover the world around them. Joyful stories and hands-on activities make it easy for kids and their grown-ups to explore everyday math together. Developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC, under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters. Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating. Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.
“Rising above the usual singsong name-checking, Vestergaard celebrates not only the jobs these machines perform but also their marvelous mechanics.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow — invite young children to meet their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away. Engaging visual details like an anxious turtle crossing the street just ahead of a steamroller are sure to keep preschoolers poring over the pages as they consider the question, “Trucks as far as eyes can see. . . . Which truck would you like to be?”
A young boy imagines the work he will do and the safety gear he will wear when he becomes a fireman some day, as his younger brother first watches then joins him on the job.
This title is part of the "My First Picture Book" series: perfect for every toddler to help encourage language skills, understanding, enjoyment and sharing. These books are a bridge between board books and picture books; printed on toddler-tough card with rounded corners. Big lorry, quarry lorry, splish, spash, Muck. Quarry lorry, Big lorry, slip, slide stuck! So begins a disastrous day at the quarry, as lorry, truck and little digger all find themselves stuck in the mud. Can Bigger Digger save the day? This is a tongue-twisting, rhyming romp that will have little readers shouting out the words.
A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.
