Trucks: Giants Of The Highway - Hardcover

Robbins, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689826648 ISBN 13: 9780689826641

Publisher: Atheneum, 1999

Synopsis

This photographic exploration of the giant trucks found on America's highways introduces young readers to the variety of eighteen-wheelers and the often-lonely lifestyles of men and women who drive them.

About this title

About the Author:

Ken Robbins specializes in photographic nonfiction books on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to the beauty of autumn leaves. He lives in East Hampton, Long Island.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Robbins (Autumn Leaves, 1998, etc.) chooses a bright palette for his hand-colored photographs, painting the cabs of a series of big rigs in eye-catching shades with trailers and backgrounds in paler tints, but many of the shots are taken from such a distance that the look is artificial, without detail or a sense of scale. The author compounds the sense of distance by showing several truckers but not introducing them; although he describes, in brief, the parts of a tractor-trailer and the kinds of loads it can haul, he skips what's under the hood or on the dashboard. Compared to books such as Hope Irwin Marston's Big Rigs (1993), David Jefferis's Giants of the Road (1991), or even Robbins's own Trucks Of Every Sort (1981), this comes off more as an exercise in artistic technique, with terse accompanying captions, than a portrait gallery leveled at young truck enthusiasts. (Picture book. 6-9) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0689826648
• ISBN 13: 9780689826641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Robbins Ken