Jon Scieszka is the creator of Trucktown, including the New York
Times bestselling Smash, Crash!, and the author of The True Story
of the 3 Little Pigs!, the Time Warp Trio series, Caldecott Honor
Book The Stinky Cheese Man, and many other books that inspire kids
to want to read. He has worked as an elementary school teacher and
is the founder of GuysRead.com, a literacy initiative for
boys.
David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production
companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including Toy Story; Monsters,
Inc.; A Bug’s Life; Cars; BlueSky’s Robots; and Nickelodeon’s
Spongebob Squarepants. He’s also written and illustrated several
picture books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs,
The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. He’s one of the illustrators
of Jon Scieszka’s fifty-two-book, New York Times bestselling
series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.
Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing; the
newest version of The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper;
Madonna’s second picture book, Mr. Peabody’s Apples; Nightsong by
Ari Berk; Frank McCourt’s Angela and the Baby Jesus; Love by Matt
de la Peña; and If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano. He also
wrote and illustrated the Otis series and was part of the Design
Garage for Jon Scieszka’s Trucktown series. Loren’s work has
appeared in Time, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The Wall Street
Journal, and The Atlantic. He lives with his wife and two sons in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.
David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning
picture books including Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book No
David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and Good Boy Fergus. He is
also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka’s
Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter
in Los Angeles.
PreS-Gr 1-"Monday. Snow. Tuesday. Snow. Wednesday. 'Snow day?' asks Jack." The red flatbed truck and his big-wheeled buddies roll out to play and clear the streets in this energetic story. The anthropomorphic vehicles skate and slide, making a snow truck and throwing snowballs. After all their fun, the streets are clean and they are ready to return to their garages. The vocabulary is appropriately limited and repetitive, and the dynamic illustrations capture youngsters' attention and encourage independent reading. Sure to be popular with truck lovers, this title is a good addition to beginning-reader collections.-Linda Staskus, Parma Regional Library, OH Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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