• Flashing Fire Engines (Amazing Machines)

Flashing Fire Engines
(Amazing Machines)

Author
Publication Date
September 15, 2000
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Flashing Fire Engines (Amazing Machines)

Description
Flashing Fire Engines (Amazing Machines) by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker 

"Big Bold fire engines, waiting day and night, Ready for a rescue or a blazing fire to fight. As soon as there's a fire alarm, the engines start to roar. The firefighters jump aboard...it rumbles out the door."

Jump aboard a bright red fire engine with a trio of friendly animal firefighters as sirens wail, lights flash, fire hoses squirt, and fires blaze -- in this story that blends action and rhyme with all the details kids want to know about one of their favorite machines. The mix of visual entertainment and lively wordplay ensures that young children will delight in the reading experience, as will the adults fortunate enough to read aloud these irresistible rhymes!
Publication date
September 15, 2000
Classification
Fiction
Page Count
-
ISBN-13
9780753453070
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Kingfisher
Series
Amazing Machines
BISAC categories
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV041030 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Cars & Trucks
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
Library of Congress categories
Fire engines
Tony Mitton

Tony Mitton is a widely anthologized children's poet, as well as a teacher and performing poet. His Royal Raps won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Children's Book Award. His recent collection of poetry, Plum, won the Publishers Weekly 2003 Cuffies Award for Best Book of Poetry. Tony teamed with illustrator Ant Parker on several books, including Dazzling Diggers, Roaring Rockets, and Terrific Trains.

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