Truck Tunes: 45 Truck Songs to Sing Aloud Together

by Jim Gardner, Rob Gardner

Overview

From the creators of the popular Truck Tunes and Twenty Trucks songs comes a bright, fun singalong book celebrating kids' favorite trucks!

Sing and dance your way into the world of trucks with this collection of 45 catchy, fun, and educational truck songs accompanied by photographs of real trucks in action. From the creators of Twenty Trucks and Truck Tunes comes the first-ever book with this brand. From timeless classics such as dump trucks, fire trucks, excavators, and cement mixers to the not-so-known but equally amazing concrete boom pumps, delimbers, vacuum trucks, and more, this is the must-have book for the truck-loving toddler and young child in any family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762482139
Publisher:	Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date:	04/04/2023
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	394,685
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jim and Rob Gardner are the creators behind Twenty Trucks and Truck Tunes. They created videos and songs specifically designed for young kids that would feature real trucks at work along with facts about what they do and how they work. Started in 2008, Truck Tunes has more than 55 videos and over 600,000,000 views on YouTube. Jim lives near Scottsdale, AZ, and Rob outside of Phoenix, AZ.

Editorial Reviews

In this substantial collection, readers will find songs about both familiar vehicles, like garbage trucks and cement mixers, and lesser-known, high-appeal wheeled machines such as the impressive rock crawler and road zipper, which moves concrete lane dividers.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-04-12
The Gardners, creators of the popular YouTube channel Twenty Trucks, which features ditties on everything from dump trucks to street sweepers, compile their favorite lyrics.

In this substantial collection, readers will find songs about both familiar vehicles, like garbage trucks and cement mixers, and lesser-known, high-appeal wheeled machines such as the impressive rock crawler and road zipper, which moves concrete lane dividers. Apart from an introduction and a glossary, the text is composed primarily of lyrics, which do by and large explain what each truck does so that even those unfamiliar with the tunes or the vehicles will understand their purpose. There is no QR code that directs readers to the songs, which would have been helpful for those not already fans of the YouTube channel. Without the music, some of the text feels repetitive (like “Off-Road Racing Truck”), and for the purposes of the book, an edited version of the original lyrics with more photographs than just one per layout would have made it more appealing to younger readers. The glossary does help deepen reader comprehension and is a thoughtful inclusion. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A clunky, bare-bones format that will nevertheless appeal to fans of all things truck. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews