Snow Trucking!: Ready-to-Read Level 1 (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) - Softcover

Scieszka, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416941401 ISBN 13: 9781416941408

Publisher: Simon Spotlight, 2008

Synopsis

What happens when Trucktown has a snow day? It's time for Jack and the gang to have some seriously frosty fun and clear the streets while they're at it!

About this title

About the Author

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.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 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
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Spotlight
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416941401
• ISBN 13: 9781416941408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Gordon David, Long Loren, Shannon David