A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa
by Jonathan London
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Author: Jonathan LondonIllustrator: Denis Roche
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 0805072330
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
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Book Review: 4 1/2 Just Keep Truckin'
Summary: 4 Stars
Jonathan London waxes poetic about the many kinds of trucks in this rhyming book for toddles. He introduces concepts such as color, length, quanitity, sound, and function--all ably illustrated by Denis Roche's friendly, bright, pictures (gouache on paper). We see long trucks (a lumber truck) and short (a forklift), a truck that goes "chugga-chuggs" (a cement mixer, and one that "goes vroom!" (a truck that flattens the cement--it doesn't seem like a vehicle that could vroom! very easily), ice cream, street cleaning, and moving trucks, among others.
That moving truck gives the book some structure in its last 10 pages. A huge truck, with "Vincent and Francis Movers" painted on its side, rolls over a bridge, drives night and day, and finally arrives, through rural areas, and finally to a little neighborhood, where a young boy (whom we see driving his own toy tryck) joyfully watches the truck arrive at his home. London's narrative gives the boy's perspective, thus further engaging his young truck-loving audience.
"If I were a trucker,
I could polish the chrome.
I could hop in that big rig...
...and drive it on home!"
Below a picture of the sleeping boy--his toy trucks on the floor beneath him--there's a brief note informing us that author London's favorite truck is a '54 Ford pickup; illustrator Roche favors a garbage truck! This is a light book that should hold the attention of would-be truckers, and that may have special value for kids whose families are moving. Most of the trucks are in suburban or rural setttings, this is not a book for those who want to see trucks in the big city.
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