Crush the stone. Crush the stone. Chip and grind and munch. Make new concrete from the old. Whirr! Churr! Crunch! From the huge crane with a swinging ball (crack! ) to the toothy jaws that ram the walls (thwock! ), this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory, and a pictorial glossary explains what each one can do.

Construction vehicle books do very little for me typically but this one I thought was well executed. My 1 1/2 year old boy enjoyed it as well. It's refreshing to see a building demolished and the land given up for a park/playground. I'm sure we'll be reading this one a hundred times before it goes back to the library. ( )

As much as trucks help to build buildings up, they also help to knock them down. This book shows the way buildings are knocked down and how the different trucks help in the process.

Tells what different machines do at a construction site.

3-5
Pierce College

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). ( )