This Truck
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374374961 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
While not as inventive as Sallie Wolf's Peter's Trucks (Albert Whitman, 1992; o.p.) or Patricia Hubbell's Trucks (Marshall Cavendish, 2003), this offering is a solid addition.–Debbie Stewart Hoskins, Grand Rapids Public Library, MICopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 1–Colorful, large, and realistic paintings of trucks will entice readers who love big rigs. The simple text explores a few opposites ("This truck has a short crane./This truck has a long crane") and on other pages describes what a particular vehicle is doing (towing a boat, carrying a rocket, pouring out salt, etc.). Front endpapers show many vintage models and back endpapers depict a variety of current-day exampl
"The Wow Factor" according to M. Allen Greenbaum. Transportation-minded author Paul Collicutt ("This Train," "This Plane") keeps things moving in this better than expected book about all kinds of trucks. He cleverly engages his toddler or early grade school audience by showing them a picture with which they can identify--A boy in a sandbox playing with a truck. Then, Collicutt ups the inter. both mom and kid love this book My toddler and I both enjoy this book. The pictures are realistic and colorful, and the trucks are shown in all kinds of situations. There's lots of instructional content: have you seen a "truck" that carries rockets? We checked tout his book from the library, and now really want to own one. Will definitely check Collicutt's other books!
Let's go trucking!Once again, Paul Collicutt brings young children color-drenched pictures and easy words to pore over about a common obsession: trucks - from a basic pickup to a 240-ton giant dump truck to the NASA Space Crawler. As a bonus, the endpapers feature labeled truck models both historic and modern.. Each illustration is coupled with very simple text comparing or contrasting the speed, size, or job of various vehicles