Tough Trucks (Amazing Machines)

Nice little book for a child that likes trucks.

I thought I was buying a board book, but it isn't. OK, so I read it, and I LOVE the book. I can't wait to read it to my grandchildren. The rhymes are great, and they use big words that I can explain to the children (like "accelerate") so they can develop the vocabulary to talk about trucks. Hey, I never knew the front was called a cab or that some trucks have a space where the driver can sleep. The "story" is good, too. So, it is fun and educational and great for a read-aloud book. And the pictures are good!!! I'm going to read the other books by this author, Tony Mitton.

This is the 5th book in this series that I purchased for my 3 1/2 year old son. He loves the pictures of the equipment and the animals using them, and the text is cute and age appropriate. All of the books have been big hits at home, and I plan on getting more for him during the next year. Recommended.

He got a copy of Tony Mitton's 'Terrific Trains' for his 2nd birthday - and he LOVED it so much, we decided to get him a copy of 'Tough Trucks' too. Unsurprisingly, he loves it as well! It's a nice size book - 8x8inches - with bright, colorful pictures and not too many words per page. (Which is important, because little ones get bored if there are too many sentences each page!) The story rhymes and flows easily, so it's not too much of a mouthful to read, like some other rhyming stories. I have purchased more books from this series for friends children, too - and will buy more from the series for my son, too! Great books!!

We have a lot of the books in this series now and my son would love to have them all. Unlike other "franchise" type series, each one of these books is as creative and fun as the last... there's not one that my son doesn't like. He's three now and does prefer longer stories, but they're really good filler books that he never turns down, and I really enjoy reading them as the rhymes and images are a lot of fun. There's also a very cool glossary at the end that gives insight into what the parts of the vehicle are and what they do, that might actually be the most fun for my little guy. Really love this entire series, we've had a lot of fun with them!

Tony Mitton's books are factual and the rhyming is catchy. My grandsons and granddaughter love all of the amazing machines titles by Mitton. Love Ant Parker's illustrations, also, which are amazingly accurate in depiction of the machines. I just bought 3 of the amazing machines books to give to my brother to read to his young grandson. I think I have their whole series now for my grandchildren.

I bought three in this series to start and I will probably buy all. Great illustrations, the text is lyrical (fun to read) and educational. My son (age 3) wants to read these over and over, a big hit!

My toddler song enjoys these books a lot - we have 3 of them and he finds all of them very interesting. They are cute and yet you learn a few things about trucks while reading it - thumbs up!

Oh my, I have read this story so many times to the grandsons. Engaging pictures, excellent quality paper. It still looks great after several months of reading. Long enough to feel like they've had a story, short enough to read twice at bedtime. Good mate to the Dazzling Diggers book.

Lovely book - another one towards the set. Grandson adores them.

The whole Amazing machine series by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker are a lot of fun for both kids and the adults reading them aloud :) Visually rich images with superb detailing and short rhyming sentences that will build vocabulary make this book and others in the series a 'must-have'!

The grandchildren love this story and art work, very fun for the whole family to read togeather!

Lovely book. Fun to read with beautiful pictures. My 2 year old loves the whole range of these and this one is particularly accessible by describing loads of different types of trucks.