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Orange Excavator
  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593202401
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 30
  • RRP: $17.99

Orange Excavator

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Board Book
15 Nov 2022
EBook
23 Aug 2022
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From the creators of Red Truck, Yellow Copter, Blue Boat, and Green Tractor comes a delightful new story about an orange excavator who saves the town of Tumberton again and again!

For babies and toddlers who love learning about vehicles of all kinds comes another colorful book in the Red Truck and Friends series! This rhyming read-aloud digs into a new kind of vehicle—excavators!

★ “A well-crafted text spiced with sound effects… highly recommended for reading aloud.”—Booklist (starred review), on Red Truck

Ready…set…EXCAVATE!

It's clean-up day in the town of Tumberton, and there's lots of hard work to be done. Orange Excavator will need to gobble up all the trash in sight, help fix the broken water line, and dig a hole to plant a tree, all before the day is done! Young readers will love exploring the visually appealing illustrations, mimicking Orange Excavator’s sound effects, and learning about all the various jobs these rough and tough vehicles can perform!

This busy read-aloud will have little workers digging into this story again and again.
  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593202401
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 30
  • RRP: $17.99
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About the authors

Kersten Hamilton

Kersten Hamilton was born in a trailer in the mountains of southern New Mexico. By their sixth birthday they knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. A writer! This would prove to be difficult, as a wayward fairy (apparently not invited to Kersten’s christening) gifted the child with dyslexia and dysgraphia topped with a dollop of autism spectrum disorder. Unaware of the academic and social trouble ahead, Kersten set off to have an exciting childhood tracking caribou and arctic wolves across in Alaska, catching tiny tree frogs in the swamps and rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, and chasing dust devils and rattlesnakes across the high desert of New Mexico. Kersten escaped electrocution when a typhoon blew power lines down over yet another trailer in a swamp in Washington state, and didn’t drown when a station wagon spun out of control onto thin lake ice in Alaska. Most of the bullets missed, none of the incidents with bears, snakes, wolves, or angry moose were fatal. It was the perfect childhood for anyone aspiring to be a writer!  When not writing, Kersten collaborates on Minecraft adventures with a husband, several grown children, and more than several grandchildren.
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Victoria Petrone

Valeria Petrone is an award-winning illustrator. Her numerous picture books include Red Truck, Blue Boat, and Yellow Copter (all by Kersten Hamilton) and a series by Gianni Rodari (Edizioni El). She does editorial illustration for newspapers and magazines as well as advertising and anima- tion. She also pursues a career as a painter, and her artworks have been exhibited in Italy and abroad. She lives in Milan, Italy.
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Praise for Orange Excavator

Praise for Blue Boat:
"Readers who are entertaining dreams of captaining a ship someday will celebrate the brave efforts of this 'rough, tough tugboat.'" --Publishers Weekly

"With plenty of sound effects and opportunities for call-and-response, this will be a spirited pick for one-on-one or group storytime." --Booklist

Yellow Copter:

"This follow-up of sorts by the author-illustrator team behind Red Truck brings the same smooth rhyming and appealing, curvy art to another gently thrilling tale of danger averted." --The New York Times

"A good choice for young transportation lovers." --Kirkus Reviews

"The vivid yellow of Copter stands out against pale blue skies, like a warming sun on a beautiful blue day. Toddlers will enjoy this story of a hero and a helper." --School Library Journal

"Hamilton's enthusiastic rhymes and declarations shine when the book is read aloud...the rescue itself feels more like an adventure than a truly dangerous situation." --Publishers Weekly

Red Truck:

*"With a well-crafted text spiced with sound effects, this appealing picture book is highly recommended for reading aloud to the truck-loving crowd." --Booklist, starred review

"Will draw young listeners in and make them right at home." --Kirkus Reviews