Sand Castle Bash: Counting from 1 to 10

by Hunter McKown, David Shannon (Illustrator), Loren Long (Illustrator), David Gordon (Illustrator)

Overview

Rev your engines for another adventure in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown! Perfect for summer or all year long!

Join ten of the Trucktown crew in this all new beach adventure as they compete in this truck-themed sandcastle contest hosted by Jack Truck! Count up from contestants one to ten and look for the numbered flags next to the sandcastle to find each truck's sandy creation. The contest hits high gear when all ten sandcastles have been introduced and the trucks are invited to bash their way through each one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416941798
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/05/2009
Series:	Jon Scieszka's Trucktown Series
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

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.

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 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.