My Big Wimmelbook - Diggers at Work!: A Look-and-Find Book (Kids Tell the Story)

(Board book)

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Description

Diggers at Work! is packed with digging machines of all kinds, alongside a crew of hard workers who are tearing down houses, shoveling dirt, and moving scrap. This is our first wimmelbook to include a spread with illustrated diagrams, helping curious kids point out different parts of diggers, like the bucket, cab, and engine. Promising hours of imaginative fun, wimmelbooks are a blast-and an excellent introduction to reading.

Reviews

"The large board books in the My Big Wimmelbook series are full of lively, crowded tableaux of people and animals going about their business in different settings. [Wimmelbooks] abound with witty details to draw in younger children . . . and older toddlers will want to follow the wordless interactions that spill from one page to the next in these eventful pictures." -- The Wall Street Journal
"You know the kid who can conjure an entire imaginary world by animating, say, the sugar packets she finds at the restaurant table That one will thank you when you put any volume of My Big Wimmelbook in front of her. . . . Picture Richard Scarryesque, diorama-like spreads with a hint of Wheres Waldo junior detective. The combination should encourage long contemplative sit-downs that will make any parents heart sing." -- The New York Times Book Review
"An opening spread outlines particular characters and objects for readers to locate, including a couple with a selfie stick, reporters on the scene, and a pizza delivery man. . . . The spreads arent as jam-packed as a typical Wheres Waldo panorama, allowing for younger readers to spot characters and objects with ease." -- Publishers Weekly
"With My Big Wimmelbook, kids experience their self-efficacy as something special, which makes them proud and, in turn, activates new learning. The inner motivation that comes with their desire to satisfy their curiosity is the ultimate source of ongoing learning." -- Dr. Kristina Unterweger, educational psychologist

Author Bio

Max Walther is a Germany-based book designer and illustrator with over ten years of experience illustrating childrens books. Walther studied design and illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany, and loves telling stories through illustration in his wimmelbooks. He is the author of six My Big Wimmelbooks, and his titles are consistently among the most popular in the series.