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by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker (Author) "Diggers are noisy, strong and big ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 24 pages
  • Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd (3 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753415003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753415009
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 9.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 227,294 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description
This work contains the following "Amazing Machine" titles: "Amazing Aeroplanes"; "Brilliant Boats"; "Cool Cars"; "Dazzling Diggers"; "Flashing Fire Engines; "Roaring Rockets"; "Super Submarines"; "Terrific Trains"; "Tough Trucks"; and, "Tremendous Tractors". This jolly slipcase is the perfect introduction to the much-loved "Amazing Machines" series. Zippy wordplay, zappy art and wacky animal characters make learning about vehicles fun. This complete set of miniature editions makes a perfect gift for any pre-schooler who loves machines. "The Complete Amazing Machines Collection" contains ten fantastic "Amazing Machines" books, miniaturised and packaged in a novelty slipcase shaped like a truck. With rhyming text, lively illustrations and a dictionary at the back, these books are both entertaining and a great resource.

About the Author
Tony Mitton is a popular children's poet, whose poetry collection The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief (Scholastic) was the winner of the 2000 Smarties prize and whose Royal Raps (Orchard) won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Children's Book Award. His other titles include collections of poetry, Plum and Pip (both Scholastic). He has written scripts for BBC Radio's Playtime and works regularly with primary-school children as a performing poet. Ant Parker has build a strong reputation in the children's books world for his distinctive, vibrant work in titles such as Big Fish, Little Fish, which was animated for BBC Children's TV, and Charlie the Chick. For Kingfisher he has illustrated the pop-up book 10 Little Monsters and the I Am Reading title JJ Rabbit and the Monster.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well loved fun, 16 Sep 2007
This review is from: Amazing Machines (Paperback)
My three year old boy has had this book for over a year and loves it, as do the many other boys I've bought it for as a gift.

A previous reviewer criticises it's lack of accuracy; I wonder if he ponders how the Hungry Caterpillar managed to eat so much without exploding or how Little Nutbrown Hare learnt how to speak so well. It's a children's book!! I have no doubt that as my son gets older he will want more factual reading in the same way that he probably won't love 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' quite so much.

From my experience, any 2-5 year old boy or girl who loves machines, will enjoy this book. We bought the whole series.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars great little reads, 18 Sep 2007
My son (2years) loves these books and I have to read them every night. Not quite as goods as 'Dig, Dig, Digging' but a good alternative when you're bored of reading the latter over and over!! My daughter (4years) also loves these books and especially likes the last page where there is a small glossary of terms relating to the machine featured in the book. Each rhyme has a wide use of vocabulary too, no 'baby' language here! A great gift for any child interested in vehicles. Happy reading!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Superficial and full of errors, 18 Aug 2003
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Although this is superficially a child-pleasing package, it is poor educational value and shot through with silly errors.

For your money you get three short booklets and three trashy plastic toys. The booklets have colourful ilutrations (one per page) featuring the same three character animals plus a 'poem' (one line per page). The illustraitons are annoyingly silly because the artist has bothered not attempted to get the even the gross details of the machines right, so for example most of the machines in the 'dazzling diggers' booklet have little in common with real diggers and earth movers; also the lunar lander is inside the Appollo service module. These aren't meant to be a reference books, but there are plenty of other books that have fun illustrations that still manage to portray the machines with reasonable accuracy.

'Doggerel' might be a better description than poem for the text. The rhymes are not so much "zanny" as silly and unfunny. The weak attempt at educational value is completely undermined by factual errors - for example, the booklet on rockets talks about 'gravity boots', which don't exist outside bad science ficton. They even feature in the supposedly factual reference section at the end.

There are many better things to buy for machine-mad kids like my four-year old truck maniac, indeed many that are fun, have some educational value and manage to be largely factual, like the Dorling Kindersley 'mighty machines' series.

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My little boy who is 3 loves these books. He knows most of them off by heart! They are easy to read and the pictures are lovely. They are a good length and a nice size too. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great value set - informative, fun books
I bought this set for my 3 year old after we enjoyed reading `Amazing Aeroplanes'. All the books in this series are bright, fun and informative. Read more
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