A review by snowelf
Demolition by Sally Sutton

4.0

This is a brand new book we saw on display at the library. My son loves everything "truck" and he's watched every single episode of Mighty Machine at least three times, so we couldn't pass over a truck book. But I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this one. Each page spread focuses on one part of the demolition process and the machines involved. The emphasis is on recycling the materials, and some of them go into the building of a playground that we watch take shape at the end of the book. The text is rhymed, the vocabulary is not dumbed down and the impressive sounds and noises the demolition machines make have a big place in the text too. The illustrations are good, and at the end there's a glossary of the main machines, with pictures (especially useful for mommies).