Five Cars Stuck and One Big Truck: A Pop-Up Road Trip

by David A. Carter, David A. Carter (Illustrator)

Overview

From bestselling author, illustrator, and paper engineer David A. Carter, comes a brand-new interactive novelty book about five cars that get stuck in the muck.

A family of dogs packs up their car for a trip! They pile in and are on their way when...uh oh. They’re stuck! Stuck in the muck! As car after car (a whirling flying car! a zooming race car!) arrives to help the family, each one gets stuck. Until finally...a truck comes along! This silly story is filled with fun novelty elements that allow readers to interact with the book. There are pull-tabs, pop-ups, turn wheels, and more! Kids will love making the flying car “fly” as it moves up and down on the page, and pulling the tab on the truck to see whether it gets all the cars un-stuck!

With rhyming text, bright and bold illustrations, and lots of opportunities for interactivity, kids and parents will get revved up for this brand-new David A. Carter book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481471190
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Pages:	18
Sales rank:	196,337
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of How Many Bugs in a Box? and more books in that series, which has sold more than six million copies. He is also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed One Red Dot, among others. Carter lives in Auburn, California, with his family.

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of How Many Bugs in a Box? and more books in that series, which has sold more than six million copies. He is also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed One Red Dot, among others. Carter lives in Auburn, California, with his family.

Editorial Reviews

2017-05-31
When a mucky stretch of road traps one, two, three, four, five cars, it's the tow truck to the rescue!Carter combines shiny, bright pop-up vehicles of diverse sorts driven by a uniformly golden cast of flop-eared spaniels with a rollicking commentary in which the words "stuck" and "muck" figure prominently. There's cleverer wordplay too: "The police car is under arrest. / The race car is in the pits. / This vacation might be a staycation. / We're all stuck!" But as soon as the first car, with its family of travelers, bogs down, the dog matriarch can be seen on her cellphone—plainly summoning the tow truck that finally shows up and, with a pull on the large tab, starts the unsticking. The muck isn't very mucky (the freed cars that speed off at the end with polite "thank you"s are as squeaky clean as they were at first sight), but readers may find opening die-cut car doors, a flashing police light, and other special effects offer compensatory diversions. This is not as dazzling as many of Carter's creations, but with relatively few effects, it may last a little bit longer in small hands.A cheery 3-D take on a popular premise, with reasonably durable moving parts. (Pop-up picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews