Rod Green is a children’s writer who has worked with many
publishers, including Puffin and HarperCollins. With Templar, he
has written books in the Mean Machines series.
Stephen Biesty has been illustrating since 1985. He has won
several prestigious awards, including the New York Times Best
Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year Award and the U.K. Literary
Association Children’s Book Award.
A gallery of gargantuan delights guaranteed to leave young fans of
mountainous machinery panting with pleasure.
—Kirkus Reviews
Green and Biesty explore the biggest of the big in this oversize
book devoted to vehicles. ... Biesty’s detailed colored-pencil
illustrations demonstrate how each machine operates, with labels
and captions explaining how various components work together. An
informative and appealing resource for readers with a serious
interest in what makes things go.
—Publishers Weekly
The boardlike pages allow for lift-the-flap features, as many as
seven per spread. Open the flap for a glimpse of what’s inside as
well as a brief caption commenting on it. Children intrigued by the
subject will pore over the handsome illustrations—intricately
detailed pen-and-ink drawings with colored-pencil shading. An
engaging, interactive learning experience.
—Booklist
Each spreads across the double page in a realistic drawing with
some cutaway views and additional small sketches among surrounding
bits of labeled text describing physical and mechanical features.
Four or five flaps are embedded in each scene, lifting to show some
internal detail and a brief explanation. ... Libraries might find
it has appeal in browsing collections, and inventive teachers may
find the size and weight comparisons useful.
—School Library Journal
Each double-page spread illustration is surrounded by insets and
details, along with heaps of effective, economical explanation and
jaw-dropping facts and stats. Lift the flaps (many rather cleverly
concealed and requiring sensitive fingers to ferret out initially)
for a peek not only into the interiors of the vehicles (so that’s
where the engineer’s toilet is on the supertrain) but also at the
structural materials, such as aluminum ribbing on the Airbus
fuselage.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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