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    Little Excavator

    Author Anna Dewdney
    Illustrated by Anna Dewdney
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    $8.99 US
    Penguin Young Readers | Viking Books for Young Readers
    6"W x 6.5"H x 0.67"D   | 8 oz | 42 per carton
    On sale Apr 01, 2025 | 30 Pages | 9780593694015
    Age 2-5 years | Up to Kindergarten
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    From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Llama Llama books comes a new character ready to dig his way into your heart!

    Here come the BIG RIGS
    rolling down the street. 
    Thumpa-thumpa
    bumpa-bumpa
    BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

    There's Loader and Dump Truck, Backhoe and Crane. They're ready to transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park. And who wants to help most of all?

    Little Excavator! But are there any jobs for someone so small?

    Anna Dewdney's signature rhyming text and inviting illustrations make this a perfect read aloud for for fans of things that go!
    Raves for Little Excavator:

    * "Pitch perfect...[Dewdney] has constructed a solid winner for one of her final books, with an appealing main character, vibrant illustrations with varying perspectives, and an action-packed, rhyming text with sound effects just begging to be read aloud with dramatic effect. An A+ for Little E and his creator."--Kirkus, starred review
    Anna Dewdney was a teacher, mother, and enthusiastic proponent of reading aloud to children. She continually honed her skills as an artist and writer and published her first Llama Llama book in 2005. Her passion for creating extended to home and garden and she lovingly restored an eighteenth-century farmhouse in southern Vermont. She wrote, painted, gardened, and lived there with her partner, Reed, her two daughters, two wirehaired pointing griffons, and one bulldog. Anna passed away in 2016, but her spirit will live on in her books. View titles by Anna Dewdney

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    From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Llama Llama books comes a new character ready to dig his way into your heart!

    Here come the BIG RIGS
    rolling down the street. 
    Thumpa-thumpa
    bumpa-bumpa
    BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

    There's Loader and Dump Truck, Backhoe and Crane. They're ready to transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park. And who wants to help most of all?

    Little Excavator! But are there any jobs for someone so small?

    Anna Dewdney's signature rhyming text and inviting illustrations make this a perfect read aloud for for fans of things that go!

    Praise

    Raves for Little Excavator:

    * "Pitch perfect...[Dewdney] has constructed a solid winner for one of her final books, with an appealing main character, vibrant illustrations with varying perspectives, and an action-packed, rhyming text with sound effects just begging to be read aloud with dramatic effect. An A+ for Little E and his creator."--Kirkus, starred review

    Author

    Anna Dewdney was a teacher, mother, and enthusiastic proponent of reading aloud to children. She continually honed her skills as an artist and writer and published her first Llama Llama book in 2005. Her passion for creating extended to home and garden and she lovingly restored an eighteenth-century farmhouse in southern Vermont. She wrote, painted, gardened, and lived there with her partner, Reed, her two daughters, two wirehaired pointing griffons, and one bulldog. Anna passed away in 2016, but her spirit will live on in her books. View titles by Anna Dewdney

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