Amazing Machines: Rescue Vehicles

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Emergency! To the rescue! Join some cool animal characters in the Amazing Machines Rescue Vehicles picture book as they drive their vehicles across the city. This lively book contains three different emergency vehicle stories featuring a flashing fire engine, a patrolling police car and an awesome ambulance. Zippy wordplay, vibrant art plus a visual dictionary make this book a must-have for bookshelves everywhere.

The Amazing Machines series boasts humorous rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton, which perfectly complements Ant Parker's bright, bold illustrations. A picture dictionary identifying different vehicle parts builds vocabulary and makes learning about all kinds of vehicles exciting and fun.

Author Bio

Tony Mitton has been writing since he was 9. He began writing specifically for children while still working as a primary school and special needs teacher. He now works full-time as a writer and sometimes performs his poems in schools and libraries, mainly in the UK. Tony has written all the picture books in the bestselling Amazing Machines series. His other picture books include Down by the Cool of the Pool (with Guy Parker-Rees) and The Somethingosaur (with Russell Ayto). Ant Parker is known for his distinctive, vibrant work in books such as Charlie Chick. His artwork has been animated for BBC Children's TV and he has illustrated all the books in the bestselling Amazing Machines series. His other titles include the pop-up counting book 10 Little Monsters, and an I Am Reading title: JJ Rabbit and the Monster. Ant lives in London.