Books with author Susan Steggall

The diggers are coming! The diggers are coming, with massive metal mouths. Their teeth are tearing at the ground and their tracks trudge round and round and round. Follow all the people and vehicles involved in building a house — from the wreckers coming to clear the ground, through planners, bulldozers, diggers, tippers, mixers, trucks, builders, cranes, rollers and vans, to the people coming to move into the new houses. A lively and colourful new book by Susan Steggall, the successful author-illustrator of Life of a Car, On the Road, Rattle and Rap, and Busy Boats, who uses her trademark vivid collage illustrations to bring a busy building site to life for young readers.

Red bus.Red car, red bus.Yellow car, red car, red bus.This beautifully simple picture book introduces the concept of patterns and sequencing to the youngest child. With an ever-growing traffic queue and entertaining background storylines, this highly original book provides plenty to amuse young readers while also being very suitable for early years education. It could be used to introduce topics of patterns, colour and vehicles.Susan Steggall is developing a name as an inventive and original author and illustrator. Her use of collage and colourful artwork is both distinctive and appealing. Rattle and Rap was praised and selected for Kirkus Reviews Best Books and shortlisted for Southampton's Favourite Book to Share 2009.The very simple, repetitive text in this book makes it suitable for the youngest child, while the subtly developed back story will encourage young readers to go back and look at it again and again.

Follow the life of a car from the production line, to being sold, driven, cleaned, crashed, mended, scrapped and finally recycled to make... another car!The Life of a Car is filled with brightly colored vehicles, including tow-trucks, transporters, and lifting machines, this is the perfect book for all car loving readers.See if you can spot the little red Mini from Susan's first book, On the Road, travelling through the book!

The diggers are coming! The diggers are coming, with massive metal mouths. Their teeth are tearing at the ground and their tracks trudge round and round and round. Follow all the people and vehicles involved in building a house - from the wreckers coming to clear the ground, through planners, bulldozers, diggers, tippers, mixers, trucks, builders, cranes, rollers and vans, to the people coming to move into the new houses. A lively and colourful new book by Susan Steggall, the successful author-illustrator of Life of a Car, On the Road, Rattle and Rap and Busy Boats, who uses her trademark vivid collage illustrations to bring a busy building site to life for young readers.

In 1978 we (John, Susan, Zeke aged seven and Zali, four) left Australia to live in the Alps of southeastern France, so beginning an extraordinarily successful relationship with wintersport competition. We went neither for work nor study, but simply for the adventure of it. Although the decision to leave was simple, the actual going was more complex – finalising business affairs, packing up our lives – but leave we did: family, friends and financial security. We spent ten years in the mountains, the passing seasons marked by the children’s progress in ski racing. It was an active, energetic life with few comforts or possessions. Time, effort and ingenuity we had a plenty – of money there was little to spare.Alpine Beach is autobiographical and biographical at the same time. After all, we are four, not one, and the book is a record of our lives.

A fantastic first concept book about colours, featuring 20 vehicles from bulldozers and trucks to tippers and diggers, and showing ten different colours. There's a wheel to turn on the final spread, where the child can match vehicles to colours, for extra interactive learning and fun. By the FL star of vehicles books and all things on wheels - Susan Steggall.

Following a fishing boat that leaves port in the morning and returns in the afternoon, this visual feast of a book illustrates many of the vessels to be seen in a typical harbour. From freighters being loaded with cargo, lifeboats, a ferry, speed boats, rowing boats and yachts, to an ocean liner, this is a book that celebrates the variety and beauty of boats and ships of every kind. Accompanied by a rhyming and rhythmic text that will delight the youngest readers, this is a perfect book for adults and young children to share. It is one that is sure to inspire a fascination with the sea and ships of all sizes. Following the author/illustrator's Rattle and Rap about a train journey, and On the Road and Life of a Car, this further establishes Susan Steggall as a striking picture book talent.

Many things happen in the life of a car: it's built, sold, driven, washed . . . sometimes it even crashes! In this book, preschoolers see all of these events, and in the end learn that an old car can even be recycled to start anew. Each two-page spread focuses on a certain stage in a car's existence. Susan Steggall's brightly colored collage art will attract all automobile lovers and invite them in for a fun look at the life of a car.