Working Machines: The Dump Truck; Working Machines: The Tugboat
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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
Illustrated by Tony Wells
Working Machines: The Tugboat
Illustrated by Tony Wells
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.
