Big Rigs would be a great addition to any primary grade classroom. It has a ton of information about Rigs within its pages. Photographs are on every page showing readers what different rigs look like. I would use this book to show students the importance of rigs. And then the importances of machines. It would also be a good book to use in a unit dedicated to automobile production.

This is a good example of an informational book because all the information is true. I like this book because of the great photographs illustrating what is being said in the book. Media is photos

Genre: Informational Book

This is informational because none of the facts are made up, they are all real life things about big rigs and trucks. The pictures are also real, and the author of the book had to go through the different companies to make sure that her facts were accurate. There are no characters in the story, and the author is talking from the viewpoint of the narrator. The author includes different sayings from truck drivers as just interesting facts. It is not all about facts of the truck, but it explores the differences between the trucks, the potential life of a truck driver, and the inside of a truck engine. At the very end of the book, it calls out to the reader to explore what they like about trucks because they may be more interested later, and may want to further a career in truck driving themselves.
The media used in this book is photography. There are no illustrations, only real life pictures from each of the companies that the author talks about. The pictures are true to life and really good explanations of what the differences are. There is one graphic illustration of the inside of a truck engine, and I can tell this was done on the computer to show the working parts and the whole part of the big rig.
This book uses onomatopoeia a lot to describe the different sounds of a truck. The air brakes that the truckers use to take a lot of power out of the engine make a “swoosh” noise, and the Mack trucks “bark”, which is a low growling sound from the smokestacks. There are also many forms of imagery throughout the book to describe the different types of trucks. The “flying saucer” image is to describe the Ford emblem on a truck, and the Freightliner trucks have a “hot dog with a hump in the top” emblem.