I bought Choo Choo Clickety Clack for Little Man after he read any Emergency from the same series whilst at nursery, and really loved it. He loves anything to do with vehicles and as this book seems to cover pretty much all of them so it seemed like a good choice for our ever growing book collection

The book is made up of 12 double pages covering 11 different vehicles and a final page about them all winding down. The illustrations by Alex Aycliffe are bright and cartoonlike, which really grab your attention. Little Man likes to pick out the little details in the pictures - like a lot of the vehicles have numbers on them, or what various people are doing.

In contrast Margaret Mayo's words only consist of 4 lines, and they all follow the same structure. The first line introduces the vehicle and what they are great at - for example 'motorbikes are great at roar, roar, roaring'. The next two lines use descriptive language to tell you about them, before ending with the sound the make 'Vroom, Vroom' and always ending with 'Off the go!' which Little Man always joins in on! The descriptive language is fab and really captures the essence of the vehicles. Little Man loves all the words that sound like noises - like 'whooaarr' and 'vroom'. However I do find that I sometimes struggle to get into a rhythm reading the first few pages and can find it a bit of a tongue twister, although hearing Mummy get in a muddle allegedly enhances the enjoyment of this book!

This book has become a firm favourite in our house. I love the variety of vehicles in this book too - you still get your trains and planes but you also get hot air balloons and cable cars which is a bit of a change from the norm. Little Man is 4 and still really loves this book, but I would say it is suitable for toddlers upwards. This is still a book that I read to him, as he is just learning to read now and it is not really suitable for sounding out phonetically, so there is still a lot of shelf life. As there are only four lines per page it is a really quick read, so it is great for when time is short or you have a little one with a shorter attention span.

We got ours from Amazon from £4.79 delivered but you can also get a copy used from 1p plus postage. The book is part of the 'On the Go' series by Margaret Mayo and there are lots of similar titles available, including Roar, Zoom Rocket Zoom and Dig, Dig Digging. We will be adding some more to our collection soon!