Tonka: Building the Skyscraper

by Justine Korman Fontes

Book Overview

Many big trucks pitch in to create the city's super-tall buildings as readers learn how the cement mixer, the tower crane, and other trucks help build skyscrapers. Full color. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439042879
• ISBN13: 9780439042871
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Cartwheel Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected, thank goodness!

A good book covering terms like cladding, telecommunications etc. Perfect for your little sturctural engineer!

great book, for 4 to 6 year olds

My kids can't get enough trucks, truck books, construction videos... you get the idea. We've read practically everything out there for toddlers, which is all pretty much the same - loaders, cranes, backhoes, loaders, cranes, backhoes. Frankly, they've advanced beyond simple descriptions of machines. So it was refreshing to find this book which is loaded with information about how a tall building is built. It tells the story from start to finish, from the surveyors at the beginning, the welders in the middle, the utility workers at the end and lots of machines throughout. One caveat: this is NOT a "baby-preschool" book. It is really for 4 - 6 year olds (possibly even older) or preschoolers who are ready to jump a level of sophistication. For example, it explains the difference between the live load and the dead load that the building must support, and why steel frames allow people to build so high. Lots of big words are used without introduction, like architect and pyramid. My almost 4-year-olds get it, but they wouldn't have a year ago. If you are looking for a different type of construction book, or need to provide your young child with new, more advanced construction info, this will fit the bill.