Heavy Equipment Up Close

Are you just wild about heavy equipment and are interested in finding out more about it? If so, you have definitely come to the right place. Of course most of the heavy equipment is BIG and so is this book. Many children can spout out the names of heavy equipment as easily as they can say tyrannosaurus rex and probably know more about them than you do. According to this book there are "more than 25 different types of heavy equipment." Some types are not as familiar to most of us, but almost all of us are familiar with the dump truck. Even this vehicle comes in many different styles. Did you know that there is a "dump truck [that] can dump its load to the side of the truck?" Just to give you an idea of what is in this book you'll be looking at dump trucks, bucket wheel excavators, the Space Shuttle crawler-transporter, mining machines (draglines), tunnel-boring machines, forestry equipment, drilling machines (offshore oil), harvesting machinery, paving equipment, bulldozers, recycling equipment, and cranes. Some of the extra facts in this book will amaze the reader so be on the lookout for little sidebars and make sure you read the captions under the pictures. Did you know that some of the "largest pavers can be as big as 150 feet across?" This is a book that will WOW both young and old alike. The text will grab even the most reluctant reader and if you hand this one over to the emergent reader you'd better be prepared to hang over his or her shoulder and read, read, read. The photographs are very appealing and many open up into three and four page spreads. There are some actual size photographs of things like gears, nuts and bolts. My only suggestion would be that you purchase some clear tape along with this book because the pages are going to be turned time and time again!