Demolition
(Paperback)
Available Formats
Paperback
Published: 1st September 2014
Board book
Published: 1st December 2013
Hardback
Published: 1st March 2012
Publishing Details
Demolition
By (Author) Sally Sutton
Illustrated by Brian Lovelock
Walker Books Australia
Walker Books Australia
1st September 2014
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
NZ823.00
Short-listed for English 4-11 Book Awards Leicester 2013 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 251mm, Height 261mm
200g
Description
"Swing the ball. Swing the ball. Thump and smash and whack. Bring the top floors tumbling down. Bang! Clang! Crack! Load the trucks. Load the trucks. Lift and shift and heap. Drive away the piles of junk. Whump! Whop! Beep!" Busy workers and noisy machines demolish an old building and build a new playground in this fun picture book from the award-winning team of Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock.
Reviews
The onomatopoeia in Sutton's simple rhyming text is appealingly extreme, and it's like a natural for listener repetition, though the verses could be more distinct from one another. Lovelock's bright picturesin ink, acrylic and colored pencilare a solid match.
Smashing good fun for preschoolers of both genders.
Author Bio
Sally Sutton's picture book Roadworks won the Picture Book category of the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book. Brian Lovelock's previous titles include Your Mother Didn't Do That!, The Rain Train and Roadworks.
