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Working Machines: The Dump Truck; Working Machines: The Tugboat

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BfK No. 83 - November 1993

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.

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Working Machines: The Dump Truck

Arlene Blanchard
Illustrated by Tony Wells
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744531190, RRP £3.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
Buy "The Dumptruck (Busy Machines)" on Amazon

Working Machines: The Tugboat

Arlene Blanchard
Illustrated by Tony Wells
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744531183, RRP £3.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
Buy "The Tugboat (Busy Machines)" on Amazon

Excellent and much needed additions to any infant class library - there are too few books of this genre where the younger infant in particular can see the fascination of working machines without the book becoming enmeshed in technicality. These two titles also allow us to identify with the struggle of the machine put to its limits, while avoiding pseudo-human characteristics which would somehow demean the power and integrity of a beautiful piece of engineering.

Reviewer: 
Judith Sharman
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