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| My Father Runs an Excavator: And so do I! By Brandi Chase. Photos by Stephen Schutz. |
A big orange excavator drops rocks and dirt into the back of a dump truck. |
| This is an excavator. It is the best machine for digging a big hole. | A yellow excavator sits near a pit at a construction site. It has a huge shovel in front. |
| This is a bulldozer. It pushes dirt and rocks. | The bulldozer has a big, flat blade in front to help it push. |
| The machines work as a team. The bulldozer pushes the dirt and rocks to the yellow excavator. | A group of machines dig together. |
| The orange excavator puts the dirt and rocks into a dumptruck. My dad runs the big orange excavator. | Big rocks fall from the shovel on the excavator into the back of the dump truck. |
| And so do I! | A little girl lays in a pile of sand. She has a toy excavator and dump truck. |
| The dumptruck dumps the dirt and rocks into a big pile. | The bed of the dump truck tips up high. The dirt and rocks roll out! |
| The dumptruck works with another team of machines. A bulldozer pushes and the loader lifts. | The loader has a wide shovel in front to lift the dirt. |
| My machines work as a team, just like my dad's do. | The little girl also has a toy loader and bulldozer. |
| At last, the loader lifts the dirt and rocks into a big truck. | The truck is ready to carry the dirt and rocks away! |
| And so do I! THE END |
The girl uses her toy loader to pour sand into a truck! |