The Pop-Up Book of Big Trucks

By Peter S. Seymour and Chuck Murphy

Book Overview

"Using a variety of moving parts, pull tabs, lift ups, die cuts, slides, and hinges, this unique book involves readers in the workings of all sorts of big trucks. . . ."--School Library Journal.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316781975
• ISBN13: 9780316781978
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A big hit with our 2 year old

This is one of my son's favorites for months now, since he got it for his birthday. We don't usually read the text, but the wonderful illustrations and sturdy pop-ups lead us to lots of discussion about all the trucks and what they do. He's learned about tractor-trailers, fuel trucks, flatbed trucks, fire trucks, garbage trucks, tow trucks, and moving trucks. My only caveat is that I've had to read the book with him so often. :-)The pop-ups are well-chosen to illustrate the trucks - you make the fireman go up and down in the bucket lift, you lift up the garbage bin and dump into the grabage truck, and you look inside the cab of the moving truck to see what's inside.

A classic in our house

We bought a copy of this book 10 YEARS ago for our now 13-y-o son. It was an instant hit and his father or I read it with him at hundreds and hundreds of bedtimes. Alex loved making truck noises and manipulating the pieces. I found it quite durable (he was not a gentle kid), and the first tears didn't come until just around the time he outgrew it, maybe age 5 or so. It got A LOT of use.My husband and I remember this book fondly, and can recite the first two pages of text from memory. :) Alex remembers this book just as happily and last night dug out his copy for his three-year-old sister. She was just as intrigued, but now I'm buying her a new copy because quite a few of the pieces are torn. I was so glad to see that it's still available. She still enjoyed her first reading of it, despite not being able to work the fire engine and trash truck.I think this book will be one for the grandkids too! :)