Cherry Pickers by Hal Rogers is a good book for students to read to help them understand what a cherry picker is, how it works, what are the parts of a cherry picker, how to steer it and what jobs it is used for. Many teachers check this book out when doing a lesson on farms and farm machinery, The illustrations are done simply so that a child can see the parts clearly, On almost every page the illustrator has placed a red arrow pointing to the object that is being described by the author,. There is also a caption for every picture that tells what is happening in each picture. On the page next to the picture, the author starts each page with a question.
This book has a Table of Contents, Glossary, Index, a Books to Go Along With this section, and a Web Sites page for students to get more information to visit.
This is a good book for teachers and parents to read to young children, as well as a good tool to work on Informational skills.
The Accelerated Reading level is 2.4. ( )