Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry

It's also teeming with detail-rich scenes and characters on every page, teaching children the rewards of looking long and closely (such as finding the hidden 'Goldbug' in each spread).

For starters, it's a great vocabulary guide that names the many things that go (and some that haven't a prayer of going, but are great fun to imagine anyway). Good stuff.Although this book was around when many of today's parents were youngsters, it has remained a steadfast must-have in every toddler's library. I was looking for nostalgia and found it with this book. It smelled the same as it did over 25 years ago. Probably the strangest thing for me was opening the book and getting a whiff of the way it smelled. I had a lot of fun finding Goldbug on each page. The story is very loose, and the pages are very busy. It is interesting to see how non-linear this book is. 'This was one of the books my parents read to me and my brother when we were very young. This was originally a library pick, that got renewed a few times, then finally purchased! ' Lots to look at, like most of Scarry's books, so we spend a lot of time with it. He loves having me read the story, looking for the hidden 'Goldbug' in each page spread, and coming up with his own names for the vehicles. It is a 'huge' book, filled with many illustrations of Scarry's imagined (and some real) trucks, planes, trains, and vehicles of all kinds. ' This is our breakfast companion book, known to my son as 'huge book'. So to check if we have the book in-stock before you place your order, contact us at 6702 2452 or drop us an email at Level: 4+ *Despite our best efforts to predict the demand for books, the magical spells we use sometimes fail us. Will Officer Flossy catch Dingo? Will Rollo Rabbit catch his runaway steamroller? And with literally hundreds of things to look at, youngsters will spend hours trying to find Goldbug on every page. Each detailed spread provides tremendous opportunity to make up stories and describe situations.

As the pig family head to the beach for a picnic, they encounter every vehicle known, from the forklift to the locomotive, and many vehicles that are not as common, from the pumpkin car to the broom-o-cycle. Every manner of machinery that moves is riotously depicted in this classic favorite.

The station wagon, the tow truck, the garbage truck and the bulldozer.

Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry