The Diggers

by Margaret Wise Brown

Overview

Dig, dig, dig! A man and his shovel dig a tunnel under a river, into the country and through a mountain. Where will they dig to next?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472337894
Publisher:	Parragon Books Ltd.
Publication date:	02/13/2015
Series:	York Beach Novel
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	36 MB
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Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of stories and poems for children. She is best known for the enduring classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny.

Date of Birth:

May 23, 1910

Date of Death:

November 13, 1952

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Place of Death:

Nice, France

Education:

B.A., Hollins College, 1932; Bank Street College of Education

Website:

http://www.margaretwisebrown.com

Editorial Reviews

A large format edition of an earlier book by renowned author Margaret Wise Brown. In this simple story the text moves from diggers who make little holes to very large holes dug by men and their equipment. The art, while striking, at times seems inappropriate to the text. Looking at the spread with a train underground does not really provide the sense of a tunnel under the city and a river. Likewise, the tunnel through the mountain seems to leave the top of the mountain suspended in the air.

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

This reinterpretation of Brown's "The Diggers" (1960), originally published with two-color illustrations by Clement Hurd, features large, brilliantly colored oil paintings in a heroic style that romanticizes man and his machines (no gender neutrality here). The energetic, eye-catching artwork is the attraction because this is not one of the author's best texts. But that won't bother small boys in the locomotive and steam-shovel phase, who'll find lots to like here.

Carolyn Phelan