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Counting book #1

This book is about a road block by trucks and how a boy solves the problem. This is a good book for learning different types of trucks and expanding the knowledge of trucks and job. You can do an activity where students write about a job that would require you to drive truck and then describe what kind of truck you would drive and why.

My two year old son has asked to read "trucks street" repeatedly before bed since we got it from the library two weeks ago. I have order him his own copy. A winner for truck fans!

The story line is cute and it does involve problem solving. The trucks are hard to count for little children.

A counting book young truck aficianados will appreciate.

If you have youngsters in your class or your home who love trucks, this is a story you must have.

Twenty trucks rolling through a city neighborhood are introduced in a breezy rhyming text, accompanied by colorful, detailed illustrations. Many kids would be completely satisfied by a simple counting book, but this story rewards the reader with an amusing plot twist as a stalled ice cream truck at the font of the line leads to gridlock. It's the young narrator who spots the solution to the problem. I'm looking forward to sharing this one with PK and K kids.

The Canal House by Mark Lee intrigued me. Lately, I’ve been on a bit of a journalism kick, for example, Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward.

I really liked how this book shifted from the point of view of Nicky, the photojournalist, to Julia, the doctor.

“But everything was simpler there [at the refugee camp]: you never thought about how you looked and what you should wear, you never had to deal with rush hour and over drafts at your bank, there were no hospital administrators criticizing how much time you spent with a patient. There were so many ambiguities back home, so many compromises. Life was difficult at a refugee camp, but easier too.” {pg. 60}

The beginning of this book and the end of this book kept me wanting more. It was the middle I had to trudge through. It was like Lee didn’t know how to move his characters from Africa to Indonesia.

It was like time had stop and he was trying to shove as much character information down his readers’ throats before he continued.

“When everything is falling apart, look for the man wearing a clean shirt. A clean shirt means he’s either disciplined or resourceful.” {pg. 264}

It was good, not quite amazing. But still I liked it.

Genre
Counting books
Picture books for children
Tone
Amusing
Illustration
Detailed
Muted
Subject
Boys
Ice cream, ices, etc.
Traffic congestion
Transportation
Trucks
Vehicles