I Am A Backhoe

What a great way to encourage children to pretend and use their own imaginations. Hooray! I have a feeling a lot of parents are going to be down on their knees being flatbed trucks after a few readings of this one. This is one of those books that has the thicker pages-somewhere in between a board book and regular paper- and it would make a great early reader. As we begin, a young boy is pretending he is a backhoe. He loves trucks and page after page he becomes a crane or a dump truck or a bulldozer. He pushes his toys, lifts his bear and carries a box of his belongings on his back. Then, Dad comes along and loads his boy onto his back. He's a flatbed truck making a delivery onto the couch. Talk about fun! 24 pages