Amazing Machines First Concepts: Sounds (Amazing Machines Series)

by Tony Mitton (Created by), Ant Parker (Illustrator)

Overview

What goes "VROOM," "BEEP," and "SCREECH"?

For fans of the bestselling Amazing Machines series, this is a perfect way for young children to learn all about noises in a colorful, engaging way, with their favorite machines!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780753472323
Publisher:	Kingfisher
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Series:	Amazing Machines Series
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Ant Parker is known for his distinctive, vibrant work in books such as Charlie Chick. His artwork has been animated for BBC Children's TV and he illustrated the bestselling Amazing Machines picture-book series. His other titles include the pop-up counting book 10 Little Monsters, and an I Am Reading title: JJ Rabbit and the Monster. Ant lives in London.


Tony Mitton has been reading and writing since he was 9. He began writing specifically for children around the age of 40 while still working as a primary school and special needs teacher. He now works full-time as a writer and sometimes performs his poems in schools and libraries and occasionally at other venues, mainly in the UK. His main published work consists of solo collections of lyric and narrative poetry, and verse picture books illustrated by a range of illustrators. His picture books include Down by the Cool of the Pool (with Guy Parker-Rees) and The Somethingosaur (with Russell Ayto). He was recently contracted to rewrite the English verse texts for Dick Bruna's Miffy series of preschool books.

Editorial Reviews

2015-10-14
The small 5-inch-square trim and the perennially popular vehicle theme will find an audience for this addition to the Amazing Machines First Concepts series. It recycles images of machines from the earlier, machine-specific titles in the series to illustrate the concept of sound, while its three companions do likewise to cover Numbers, Colors, and Opposites. Parker's illustration style is reminiscent of Richard Scarry's, with anthropomorphic rabbits, mice, possums, and others driving the trucks, trains, boats, planes, and construction equipment. The book encourages interaction, though some of the noises seem too abstract for the toddler audience. It takes a bit of looking to figure out that the hose being used to wash mud off a backhoe makes the "splish, splash" sound or that "glug, glug" could be the sound of a tanker being filled. Each sound is repeated, which makes sense for "choo, choo" and "beep, beep," but the plane making a "bump, bump" sound gives one pause. The information presented earlier is repeated on a flapped back page, but it is so slight its repetition seems superfluous. However, it is convenient, since most toddlers won't be begging to reread these books from the beginning. Serviceable—nothing more. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews