In April, I did a review of Brian Biggs' Everything Goes On Land. I likened Biggs to a modern day Richard Scarry. And similar to Scarry, Biggs has expanded formats for his Everything Goes series. In addition to the oversized picture books, you can now get the great images and work of Brian Biggs in a board book format for the toddler set. There are also several I Can Read books that are based on Biggs' Everything Goes.

If you are looking for gifts this holiday season for young readers with a penchant for books that feature vehicles and various forms of transportation, here you go.

Everything Goes - Stop! Go!
Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins (December 26, 2012) - Ages: 2 to 4 years
Format: Board Book

Everything Goes - 1, 2, 3 Beep, Beep, Beep!
Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins (December 12, 2012) - Ages: 2 to 4 years
Format: Board Books

Everything Goes Henry Goes Skating
Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins (August 21, 2012)
Format: Early Reader
Author: B.B. Bourne (Based on the Everything Goes Books by Brian Biggs)
Illustrator: Simon Abbott (in the style of Brian Biggs)
Independent Reading Level: 1st & 2nd Grade
Read Aloud Level: Kinder to 2nd grade

Everything Goes In the Air
Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins (September 11, 2012) - Ages: 4 to 7 years old
Format: Oversized Picture Book

Official trailers of Everything Goes In the Air:

Everything Goes: In the Air (animated trailer) from Brian Biggs on Vimeo.

Look for books by Brian Biggs at your local library or bookstore. Don't forget to shop at an Independent Bookstore when possible.

Thank you to Harper Collins for sharing these books with me. I can't wait to share them with teachers and librarians that I work with, and I know a few beginning readers who are going to particularly enjoy the Early Reader series.

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Author/Illustrator: Brian Biggs
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins (September 13, 2011)
Source: Copy for Review
Audience: Ages 4 to 7
Fiction * Interactive Concept Book * Vehicles

Description from Publisher:
Cars and trucks and bikes and trains! Rvs and construction vehicles too! Everything goes Ride along with Henry and his dad as they visit the big city and check out all the amazing vehicles around them. Full of mini-story lines, endless seek-and-find activities, and hundreds of funny details, Everything Goes: On Land is an interactive book that provides hours of fun!

My thoughts on the book:
Some books make excellent read alouds. Other books are perfect for curling up in a chair and reading alone or with 1 or 2 friends. Everything Goes: On Land is the later. Even though the book is oversized and there are lots of larger illustrations, there is just so much wonderful details that children are going to want to linger over this one. I can see an older child sitting with a younger child, heads bent over the book, finding numbers, or examining the various vehicles.

When I first sat with this book, my brain immediately thought back to the old Richard Scarry books, and when I looked at Brian Biggs' website, I noticed that he was a fan of them as well. If you can improve on Scarry's work, then Biggs has done it. I loved that the two page spreads with lots of detail were broken up with two page spreads on a particular mode of transportation. For example, you will have a two page spread with lots of different kinds of bicycles followed by a two page spread with an individual bike and labels for all of the parts of the bicycle. And there is a fun surprise towards the end.

This will be a hit with preschool and primary grade students but I do expect to find older children pulling this one off the shelf.

Check out the book trailer: