Supertrucks - Hardcover

Walker, Sloan; Vasey, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802766064 ISBN 13: 9780802766069

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1985

Synopsis

A photographic study of vehicles ranges from giant airport snowplows to bomb disposal trucks, and from prison buses to tow trucks for planes to Supervans

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Gr 1-4 A disappointing entry in the series. Billed as an introduction ``to some really far-out vehicles,'' Supertrucks touches on over 40 trucks, vans and buses, many of which are unique models custom designed to perform a specific operation. Police, military, construction and novelty vehicles are among those selected: the longest bus, the largest fire engine, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the Moonscope. Brief text, unattractively printed within blocked areas, is accompanied by unexciting, often blurred black-and-white photographs. A comparison of the picture of NASA's crawler-transporter in this book with the vivid color photo in Jerry Bushey's Monster Trucks & Other Giant Machines on Wheels (Carolrhoda, 1985) points dramatically to the lack of success of Supertrucks. Also written for a similar age group is George Ancona's excellent Monster Movers (Dutton, 1983). Admittedly, the three books don't touch on exactly identical vehicles, but their scopes are similar. Connie Tyrrell Burns, Morrisson-Reeves Library, Richmond, Ind.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0802766064
• ISBN 13: 9780802766069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48