Saturday, June 25, 2011

Every driver, every officer, every hero a woman

Big Machines
a board book

In which a pair of children and their dog go out for a walk and see a sequence of large machines, such as bulldozers, fire engines, cherry pickers, cranes, airplanes, and boats. Every character in the book is female, from the little girls to the drivers of the trucks to the firefighters to the pilot to the police officer directing traffic around a construction site. The art is in a brightly colored cartoony style with a simplified cityscape background, bright sunny day, and focus on the machines. Text to emphasize the machines and teach about what each is or does. Story ends with girls returning home and playing with toy trucks, machines, planes, etc.

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