{"id":218355,"date":"2025-05-02T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/may-day-and-many-machines-by-penny-dolan\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:15:10","slug":"may-day-and-many-machines-by-penny-dolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=218355","title":{"rendered":"May Day and Many Machines by Penny Dolan"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Maytime, and a new picture book has arrived from Little Tiger’s publication list for young and very young children. Then, yesterday, I came home from the library with another picture book title. Both might be for my next Under-Five Storytimes. <\/p>\n

\u00a0What links the titles? They both involve some sort of transport, and I am taking them in case one of the regular audience comes along. He may or he may<\/i> not – patterns of home life change over the holidays, but if he does appear, I’ll be ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like many boys – and probably many girls – he really enjoys books about all sorts of machines. There are lots of children who are fans of cars, trains, diggers, lorries, planes, cranes, boats\u00a0 and every sort of mechanical thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Little Tiger title was a very short and simple feely book, useful for a quick start to a session:<\/p>\n

\"Books\u00a0<\/p>\n

The other, the library title, involves helping\/working with trains, engines and even cranes. The story is longer – too long? if so, I can speed it up – and with far subtler illustrations:<\/p>\n

\"Hamish <\/p>\n

I have begun looking around for transport titles and books about machines. There are favourites, of course, like this one old and two not quite so old classics. <\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Mrs<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Mr<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here’s one that is a huge favourite for idling over, side by side, but sadly not at Storytime:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Cars, <\/p>\n

\u00a0There are even books that echo well-known rhymes:<\/p>\n

\"Car, <\/p>\n

\u00a0Or ones with familiar tv families and characters:<\/p>\n

\"George's\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Avoiding dinosaur\/digging machine titles,\u00a0 here’s a new one that looks a lot of fun. <\/p>\n

\"You<\/p>\n

\u00a0Or for older enthusiasts, though not for my Storytime, this interesting idea:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"How\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I’m sure that many homes have modern versions of this well-worn tale:<\/p>\n

\"Thomas <\/p>\n

There are quite a lot of transport titles but maybe not as many as I’d hoped for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which leads me to my question. With all the cute ‘n cosy, emotion-centred picture books, do we need a few more mechanical titles?<\/b> Do you have any recommendations?\u00a0<\/p>\n

And how do such books fit into a Future Greener Age? <\/b><\/p>\n

\"Mrs<\/p>\n

Happy May Day!<\/p>\n

Penny Dolan <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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