Push-Pull-Turn! Books

Dump Truck Gets to Work!
Fire Truck to the Rescue!
Up in the Air!
Dump Truck Gets to Work!
Up in the Air!
Dump Truck Gets to Work!
Fire Truck to the Rescue!
board • 20 Pages
Dump Truck Gets to Work!
Book #1

Dump Truck Gets to Work!

Written by Peter Bently & illustrated by Joe Bucco
4 - 6
Reading age
20
Page count
Apr 1, 2017
Publication date
Hardcover
$15.99
$14.98

Summary

Slide, pull, and lift the vehicles on the construction site! Get ready to work on a construction site! Push-Pull-Turn! Dump Truck Gets to Work is full of interactive elements that bring the scenes to life. Whether it’s a dump truck, digger, or cherry picker, the story is told in rhyme and introduces the each vehicle and its role. Young builders will love following the vehicles around the construction site in this exciting tale.

Push-Pull-Turn! Series

Published from 2017 - 2017
3 books
board • 20 Pages
Dump Truck Gets to Work!
Hardcover
$15.99$14.98
board • 20 Pages
Fire Truck to the Rescue!
Hardcover
$15.99$14.98
board • 20 Pages
Up in the Air!
Hardcover
$15.99$14.98

The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author
    Peter Bently

    My dad was an army bandmaster and director of music. Having a dad in the army meant that we moved around a fair bit when I was a child, so I lived in Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as places in England, including in Devon where I live now. I recently worked out that I went to ten different schools, or eleven if you count going to the same school twice (that was in Hong Kong). Imagine having that ‘first day at school’ feeling eleven times! But often there were other children whose parents were in the services too and who had also changed schools a lot, so I didn’t feel too weird. I have always enjoyed words but it took me quite a while to discover that I wanted to be a children’s writer. After university I worked for a short time as a journalist and then for a much longer time editing and sometimes writing books for grown ups. But I always liked writing funny stories and verses. When I was best man at my brother John’s wedding I even wrote my best man’s speech in rhyme. A few years later, my wife read that speech and said I should do more of that kind of thing. After we had our first child, Theo, and then (in 2001) moved from London to Devon, I started taking children’s writing seriously. I joined a creative writing group and in 2004 took a course run by the excellent Arvon Foundation. In 2005 I sent the text of A Lark in the Ark to fourteen publishers. Twelve of them said no thanks, but Egmont accepted it. I still have a copy of their cheque on my wall. (Bio via peterbently.com)

    Illustrator
    Joe Bucco

    Joe Bucco studied illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design, and after spending some time in New York returned to his home town of Cleveland where he lives with his wife and two children. As well as illustrating children’s books, he has worked on graphic novels, comic books, greeting cards, and stage design.

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