New Releases by Sally Sutton

From two of New Zealand''s favourites - Sally Sutton and Cat Chapman - a rollicking romp through a day on a family camping trip! When we go camping, we bang in the pegs, bang in the pegs, bang in the pegs. Guy ropes are tricky; they trip up our legs! Smacketty tappetty bopp-io.

PICTURE BOOKS. Three great board books inside - Roadworks, Demolition and Construction! CRASH! ROAR! THUMP! The construction crew is ready to go! Big machines and busy workers team together to build things up and knock things down. Boisterous sound words and vibrant colours make these rhyming board books the perfect read-alouds for young truck lovers. Ages 0+

"The construction crew is ready to go! Big machines and busy workers team up to build things up and knock things down. Boisterous sound words and vibrant colors make these rhyming board books the perfect read-alouds for young truck lovers."--Slipcase cover.

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The younger sister is too scared to come down the slide. After some help from her big sister, little sister gets down.

The younger sister is too scared to come down the slide. After some help from her big sister, little sister gets down.

"Una vez más el equipo de construcción regresa con sus grandes máquinas. ¡Listos a excavar, martillar y construir!"--Back cover.

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The younger sister is too scared to come down the slide. After some help from her big sister, little sister gets down.

"This is all about as good as it gets for truck-obsessed preschoolers." — The Horn Book (starred review) Features an audio read-along! From the huge crane with a swinging ball (crack! ) to the toothy jaws that ram the walls (thwack! ), this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory.

Sally Sutton’s tribute to the big machines that tear things down is now available as a Spanish-language e-book. Desde la enorme grúa con una gran bola que gira ¡CRACH! hasta la excavadora que los muros derrumba ¡PLAM! ¡todo lo relacionado con demolición es una gran diversión! Features an audio read-along! From the huge crane with a swinging ball to the toothy jaws that ram the walls, this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads showcase the gargantuan machines in all their glory.

Thonk! Clonk! Clap! The team behind Roadwork and Demolition returns to the construction site, where big machines and busy workers dig, hoist, and hammer away. There’s lots of noise and excitement involved in building a library! Preschoolers will clamor to take a close look. Award-winning duo Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock are back with another rhythmic read-aloud full of bustling illustrations and sound words that beg kids to join in.

When a flood causes a family to be stranded in their car, Farmer John''s tractor is the only vehicle that is able to rescue the family.

Combines engaging images and alliterative rhyming text to describe the construction of a new road by favorite big vehicles and the busy workers who use them, depicting stages from clearing a pathway and rolling out tar to sweeping up at the end.

"The hilarious diary of a young frog desperate to win the role of human princess in her school production of The Frog Prince. She''s sure she''s pretty enough (she has more warts than any other girls in class), but will she ever overcome her terrifying case of stage fright?"--Back cover.

Boys and bugs - beaut! Ben''s lost his pet icky-ooky-sticky-smick. And he is determined to find him. No other bug will do. No cribble-crabble-scuttle-snucks! Or lurky-murky-dottle-spots! Only his purple and velvety icky-ooky-sticky-smick ...

A funny little story describing the daily life of a regular young bat-his run-ins with Mr Forster the mean maths teacher and other adventures including Vamp''s dares, the Festival of Exploding Stars (Guy Fawkes), the Shining (Sun) and meeting his dad.

Life in the wetlands is humorously told through the diary of a young pukeko, embarrassed about his patchy feathers (he''s moulting), but determined to win the favour of the gorgeous Indigo Tuk-tuk. Suggested level: primary.

A is for All Black but that''s just the start. Here''s an alphabet book that''s Kiwi at heart!

Rhyming text follows the construction of a road. Includes brief factual information about the machinery that is used. Suggested level: junior.

Charlotte Frisbee is the president of a secret club called PAWS (the Perfectly Amazing Word Society). Along with the other members of PAWS – super-brain Podge, extra-serious Bugsy and freaky-looking Simon – the big excitement of Charlotte''s week is getting the club together for word games and general language silliness. That is, until one day when strange things start to happen around the school. What has caused the stinky green slime the kids have noticed around the place? And who stole the S''s from the school sign and ripped the S section out of Pugsy''s dictionary? Charlotte and her friends strongly suspect the Bookbashers . . . but are they really smart enough to plan such a direct attack on what PAWS loves the most? Soon the cause of the mysterious circumstances is revealed . . . and who would have thought that such a sweet little slime monster could have caused so much confusion?

The younger sister is too scared to come down the slide. After some help from her big sister, little sister gets down. Suggested level: junior, primary.

The younger sister is too scared to come down the slide. After some help from her big sister, little sister gets down. Suggested level: junior, primary.