Little Truck

by Taro Gomi

Overview

Little Truck is setting out to explore! He's going fast, climbing hills, and braving tunnels, being just the right amount of careful along the way. But no matter how far he goes, his caring parent is never far behind. This on-the-go board book by beloved author-illustrator Taro Gomi is perfect for toddlers moving onwards and upwards to big adventures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452165721
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	22
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Taro Gomi is an internationally renowned author and illustrator who has created more than 400 books for readers of all ages, including the award-winning Over the Ocean and bestsellers Bus Stops, I Know Numbers!, My Friends, and Spring Is Here. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Editorial Reviews

"Toddlers will instantly identify with this simply adorable little hero as he rolls through life."- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2018-02-03
A day in the life of a little pink truck. Little Truck travels fast and climbs hills, accompanied by a salmon-colored larger truck, likely a caregiver stand-in. This flatbed truck follows Little Truck, giving him a boost up a hill, and after Little Truck goes into a tunnel and becomes lost for a couple of page turns, he emerges fast asleep on the back of the larger truck. Each double-page spread depicts a scene from Little Truck's journey and is accompanied by one to three sentences of simple text, which often reads as if the bigger truck were speaking with Little Truck. Gomi's signature style is in top form here. All this master uses to create the bodies of the trucks are squares, rectangles, and circles, adding dots and dashes to create eyes, mouths, and rosy cheeks to give them personality. The deliberately sparse backgrounds of tawny browns, tans, and deep grays allow the trucks visually to pop off the page. That this little pink truck is explicitly given the masculine pronoun is a delightful, gender-norm-busting detail.Toddlers will instantly identify with this simply adorable little hero as he rolls through life. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews