Shape Up, Construction Trucks!

An engaging, multilayered book that helps little ones identify shapes on their favorite construction-site vehicles

Dump Truck, Dump TruckComing through!I spy a triangle-how about you?

It's no secret that toddlers of any gender love big vehicles. Shape Up, Construction Trucks! uses rhyming verse and bright photographs to celebrate this enthusiasm in a unique take on conceptual shape books. Each spread highlights geometric shapes hiding in plain sight on excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and more. And after the toddlers have browsed the pages to their heart's content, a final note to parents offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational skills.

By kindergarten, most children should have developed the spatial sense to identify shapes in real-world environments. Shape recognition lays the foundation not only for geometry, but for learning to recognize letters and numbers as well. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, Victoria Allenby's Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a highly visual shape book that digs deep.

About the author

Victoria Allenby has been writing poetry and stories for as long as she can remember. Her debut picture book, Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, won the 2014 Preschool Reads Award and was nominated for the 2015 SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Timo's Garden was a New York Public Library Best Books for Kids & Teens selection. A freelance writer and editor, Victoria lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Summary

The more-than-just-a-shape book that earned starred reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews is back in a board book format

Foreword

• 6,000-copy print run


• Pitch to major review media, including The New York Times, The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal


• Featured at AMLE, NAYC, NCTE, and ALA with the Publisher Spotlight booth


• Targeted marketing to major review centers, influential bloggers, and major library system selectors


• Classroom guide for educators


• Promotion on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest


• E-newsletter promotion

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Allenby
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 1 to 3
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9781772781342
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-134-2
• No. of pages: 24
• Illustrations: Full-color photographs throughout
• Series: Big, Little Concepts
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Mathematics; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / Geometry, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Transportation / Cars & Trucks, Transport (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 3 years, Stories in rhyme, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Transport & vehicles, Buildings & construction (Children's / Teenage), Early years: size, shapes & patterns, Shapes – Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature, Trucks – Pictorial works – Juvenile literature