I really liked this book about a dump truck, performing dump truck duties, with his friend Hard Hat Pete. No, not my husband Pete, who also wears a hard hat at work...Each page has a 4-line rhyming phrase and an illustration that goes with it. The cut-out illustrations are super cute, and there are many, many ethnicities and genders represented throughout this little book. The cars and other equipment also have personalities, which help make this a really fun children's book.
The story, more specifically, starts with the little dump truck carrying a full load through a city, ending up at a building site. He dumps his load, watches the workers for a while, and receives more dirt into his dumper. He drives down route 10 to a garbage site, and makes his delivery. He then continues onto another state, fulfilling his duty as a happy little dump truck. It really is a very pleasant story... There are some hard words in this book though, that I don't necessarily think are the best choice for a board book. Words like debris, excavator, and landfill. Appropriate for an older child who is particularly interested in construction equipment and big machines, not so much for the mildly interested or baby. Nevertheless, this is a quaint, cute book that I really would love for my personal collection!
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