Eight sound buttons run down the side of this Ladybird board book, covering a drill, a hammer, a saw, a cement mixer, a digger, a reversing lorry, a squeaky wheelbarrow and a whistling builder.
The pages follow a house going up from the first excavation to the finished building, naming the machines and the workers involved at each stage. Pictures carry real information rather than decoration, so a child learns what a cement mixer is for while pressing the button that makes its noise. The book is large and solidly made, which suits the way small children handle anything with buttons on it.
What makes it useful:
• Eight distinct site sounds, each matched to a machine shown on the page
• A build sequence that explains how a house goes up in order
• Factual labelling of tools, vehicles and the trades that use them
• Large sturdy format from Ladybird, built for heavy repeated use
For toddlers and pre-schoolers fascinated by machines and building sites, published by Ladybird and available at Boipoka.