Editorial Review

Construction-crazy kids will dig right into this level 2 reader in the Mighty Machines in Action series. The ever-popular bulldozer pushes, lifts, digs, and rips its way across the pages, accompanied by short sentences that describe the parts of the machine itself (blade, tracks, cab, etc.) and the different kinds of jobs it does. Numerous pictures of bulldozers at work plaster the acid-green pages, including a “machine Profile” of the Caterpillar D9T and scaled image of the world’s largest bulldozer, the Komatsu D574A-3SD. Readers will spot dozers leveling ground at a construction site, pushing rubble at a mine, and tearing up rocky soil. A labeled diagram points out this hard-working machine’s main feature, reinforcing the text, and highlighted vocabulary is defined in a glossary. An energetic and informative read.