Motor Mix: Emergency: (Interactive Children's Books, Transportation Books for Kids)

by Emily Snape, Rilla Alexander (Illustrator)

Overview

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Motor-Mix a lifeboat, highway patrol car, and snowplow to create an emergency vehicle unlike any other. Young readers will delight in mixing and matching their favorite vehicles and then reading the funny sounds and sentences that result, making for a playful, interactive bonding experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452148380
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	Motor Mix Series
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Emily Snape is an author and illustrator who often finds herself stuck in traffic. The only thing to be done is daydream about a car that releases helicopter blades and can whirl her away. She lives in Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom.

Rilla Alexander is a world-traveling author and illustrator who lives in Portland, Oregon.

Editorial Reviews

"Vehicle-savvy children will delight in designing fantastical forms of transportation."-Kirkus Reviews

"Vehicle-savvy children will delight in designing fantastical forms of transportation."-Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-09-26
Mixed-up vehicle parts encourage readers to make a helicopter or invent a tow-ambulance-copter in this inventively formatted board book.Each page is cut into three horizontal panels. The left-hand page is sectioned into vehicle parts: wheels on the bottom, truck or plane bodies in the middle, and extras such as lights or ladders on top. Individual panels can be flipped for a mix-and-match effect. Digital illustrations are unfussy and utilize a pleasingly minimal palette of primary colors. The various drivers are a diverse crowd, with child and pet passengers along for the ride. Whereas the boldly lined vehicle pieces on the left three panels blend intuitively, the same cannot be said for the text. The right-hand page panels are divided into an action statement, a sound, and a location, occasionally yielding some awkward combinations: "I am ready / NnneeaOOwwwww / along the path." Readers seeking a transportation concept book should look elsewhere, as combining the panels into a conventional vehicle can be a frustrating experience. Vehicle-savvy children, however, will delight in designing fantastical forms of transportation, and the sturdy cardboard pages will hold up to their enthusiastic turns. For readers who prefer exclusively airborne transit, Motor Mix: Flight showcases helicopters, rockets, and planes.While adult readers may wince as they try to fit vehicle pieces together and at the sometimes-stilted dialogue, creative preschoolers will find plenty of interactive fun devising their next "Motor Mix." (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews