Paving Partners: A Lift-the-Page Truck Book (Finn's Fun Trucks) by Finn Coyle


Paving Partners: A Lift-the-Page Truck Book (Finn's Fun Trucks)
Title : Paving Partners: A Lift-the-Page Truck Book (Finn's Fun Trucks)
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ISBN : 1486722741
ISBN-10 : 9781486722747
Language : English
Format Type : Board book
Number of Pages : 14
Publication : Published August 2, 2022

The paving partners introduce the machines that help each of them do their job to build and maintain the roads we travel on each day. Discover a surprising assortment of machines used to help cleanup, level, and pave new roads, including a wheel loader, grader, asphalt paver, tandem vibratory roller, and a truck-mounted marking machine. Readers are asked if they know what each vehicle does and then the answer is revealed under a sturdy full-page flap. About the Finn’s Fun Trucks Written by teen truck enthusiast Finn Coyle, the Finn’s Fun Trucks series provides a vocabulary-rich introduction to transportation for truck-loving children with the help of a diverse range of vehicle operators and community helpers. Each spread has a full page lift-the-flap feature providing a wealth of learning and discovery in each book.

Paving Partners: A Lift-the-Page Truck Book (Finn's Fun Trucks) Reviews

  • Theediscerning

    "The Train Team" wasn't a brilliant introduction to this series of very early readers. We get a look at five train operatives, then their five different vehicles each get two double page spreads, one with the person in close-up talking to us, and a diagram of some of their train with some labels, and the other with the train in action in wider shot. Then the people all together again, and the message that trains are useful, and then the trains all over again. It didn't strike me as if a heck of a lot of effort had gone into it – and why did anyone think it responsible to show the very young audience people, even if they are workers, standing on top of trains?

    Exactly the same pattern is to be had with "Paving Partners", with some specific construction vehicles, which gets to use some awkward vocab, like 'tandem vibratory roller', but has more variety in it, and almost a narrative as we see the road get built in all its stages later on. "Military Machines" introduces us to amphibious landers and aircraft carriers, but if we're reminded this is for the US military once we're told countless times, and the repetition only makes it very unlikely I'll ever see any of these in the wild here in the UK – even with the inclusion of a London double decker in "Bus Buddies", which felt the need to stretch the definition of bus just to get to five examples with their drivers.

    All told these books are too slim, too repetitive and of limited appeal and use. The people with their permagrins are too prominent, the diagrams combine to give us a view of about half of how these vehicles are put together, and it wouldn't be long before the young reader is after something more comprehensive. "Finn's Fun Trucks", from what I have seen of it at least, has branched right out to leave the trucks behind, offers very little in the way of fun, and, yes, I am Finn-ished with them already, I'm afraid. Three stars generously for the road construction volume, two for the others for multiple reasons.