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Little Blue Truck board book Board book – July 7, 2015

by Alice Schertle (Author), Jill McElmurry (Illustrator)

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Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road.
With a text full of truck sounds and animal noises to read aloud, here is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others.

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PreS—Folksy rhyming stanzas introduce readers to Blue, the eponymous pickup truck, and the barnyard critters he greets as he navigates the country roads near his farmhouse. The first half of the book is an enchanting, toddler-entrancing symphony of animal noises and beeps. The cheerful text mimics the bouncing of the truck, and the warm folk-art illustrations call to mind the paintings of Grandma Moses. Then it begins to rain, and a mean, self-important dump truck enters the story. When the Dump gets mired in the mud and honks for help, he gets no response: "nobody heard/(or nobody cared)." Then Blue drives into the puddle to assist, but also gets stuck. When Blue cries for help, the animals rush to the rescue. From this, the dump truck learns that "a lot depends/on a helping hand/from a few good friends." While the message might be a little heavy-handed, this is still a fun, rollicking story that should find a place in most collections.—Rachael Vilmar, Eastern Shore Regional Library, Salisbury, MD
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"Schertle's (All You Need for a Beach) rhyming stanzas are succinct, and she gives readers plenty of opportunities to chime in with animal and vehicle noises; colored, standout fonts highlight these sounds for extra effect. McElmurry's (Mad About Plaid) gouaches recall the heyday of Golden Books in their combination of vividness, naïveté and sweetness, and her rich palette achieves verisimilitude that is no less satisfying for being nostalgic." --Publishers Weekly, starred review (4/28/08)

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Age Range: Baby and up
Series: Little Blue Truck
Board book: 30 pages
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; Brdbk edition (July 7, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0544568036
ISBN-13: 978-0544568037
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.7 x 6.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3,202 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Farm Animals
- #2 in Books > Children's Books > Cars, Trains & Things That Go > Cars & Trucks
- #55 in Books > Reference

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A book that rhymes, has great pictures and teaches a lesson in politeness

ByChelseaon November 5, 2015

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I just love stories that are cute, rhyme well and offer a good message. This one is so perfect for my little boy. (I think I might love it more though!) it is about a blue truck that sees farm animals along the way, then a dump truck comes around and is rude to him, but gets stuck in the mud. So he and the farm animals help him out of the mud and the dump truck apologizes for being rude. It's a fun book and I highly recommend it for all!!!!

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My son has learned so much from this book, that I once considered "just a book"

ByBach be the lighton April 26, 2016

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This book is one of my son's favorites and one I love to read to him. Here is why:
-The pictures are captivating
-The story is fun, rhymes and has a lesson on kindness
-Helps children to identify animals and their noises
-Helps children to count to 3
I didn't know any of this going into the story. I just thought it looked cute and heard from friends about how good the book was. My son has learned so much from this book, that I once considered "just a book".

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... bought this book as a gift because my children loved it so much

ByS. Sullivanon November 16, 2016

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I bought this book as a gift because my children loved it so much. Books like this are the types of books that get your kids talking and finishing the sentences in the book. It's an adorable story of friendship. A little blue truck whose friendly "beep, beep, beep" has the whole town of animals saying hello back. When the big important, with no time for pleasantries, truck gets stuck...Little Blue's friends come to the rescue.

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Wonderful Rhyming Book for both Boys and Girls!

ByZ Galon May 8, 2015

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This book was my son's favorite for his first three years. I read it so much to him that I had it memorized and we had to buy a second book because the first one fell apart. The pictures are great and give a lot of personality to the Little Blue Truck, the animals, and the Dump Truck. The rhyming text is wonderful and I've read that reading stories that rhyme or nursery rhymes to children in their first couple years of life helps increase language comprehension and association more effectively than non-rhyming stories because they are able to respond to rhythm and tone before they understand language. This is a lovely book for that purpose. It not only rhymes but also has animal sounds which my son loved.

The premise is that the little blue truck winds his way through the countryside beeping his horn to say hi to all the animals and the animals say hi back with their own sounds (baa, maa, cluck, peep, naaayy, etc.). Then the big Dump Truck comes barreling through in a rush and gets stuck in the mud. The blue truck tries to help but gets stuck too. Then all the animals hear the beep of the Little Blue Truck and come to rescue him and the Dump. The sweet moral of the story is if you help others they will in turn help you when you need it. I think the other underlying moral for adults is to slow down and be aware of your relationships and don't just be so focused on yourself. We are a community and we all need each other. Anyway, that is a very underlying current and is certainly not the intent of the story. Don't hesitate to buy this book for all the babies you know!

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Best Board Book I've read!!!

ByGregory Kellyon July 18, 2016

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I can't even explain how awesome this book is. Not only does it teach a good lesson to your child, it is tremendously fun to read. The challenge is to read it without singing it. With no music (obviously) and no song to model after, I can guarantee that you will be singing to the exact rhythm that is supposed to be used!

In not the only one in love with this book though. My 14 month old son is a huge fan! I have been reading this book to him regularly since he was about 4 or 5 months old. I expect to continue reading it for at least another 2-3 years! The only things that might get in the way of that are the many sequels for this book.

This is am absolute must have for a child's book collection! You will get at least 4 or 5 years out of this one book!

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Almost Singable.

ByBraden E. Boston April 4, 2017

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If you do a lot of reading to your kids, you'll quickly learn that there are a lot of "poem" books, and they can be nice since they're more fun to read out loud than prose, but plenty are atrocious because the authors somehow didn't know that poetry requires meter to work as well as rhyme (to say nothing about the tons of poem books out there with horrible approximate rhymes).

That in mind, "Little Blue Truck" is an absolute pleasure to read because its rhymes work and most of all because its meter is flawless; it almost begs to be sung it flows so well.

The content is simple and uncontroversial, though I would mildly object to the implication that someone with "big important things to do" is wrong for not taking the time to chit-chat with everyone.

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Fun read

Good flow and rhythm. Fun illustrations and great moral to the story. I'll buy the paper version for my son.

Published 4 hours ago by Gladstone

Five Stars

Great pictures and a wonderful story

Published 19 hours ago by Cindy konjarevich

very nice

great book.

Published 1 day ago by dede cute

New favorite!

A new addition to our ever growing library, my son picks it almost every night. He loves to beep and honk along!

Published 2 days ago by mrs.smith.

Five Stars

Riveting novel, on par with the Iliad.

Published 3 days ago by Brian Cass

Early childhood professional's fave.

As a daycare teacher I have hundreds of the board books for age 0-3. This one is my all time favorite.Read more

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Moral to the story in addition to being fun to read

Wonderful book written poetically. Kids love hearing the animal sounds and the truck go beep. There's a great moral to the story as well----if we all work together we can...Read more

Published 5 days ago by SMM

My boys love the story and all the animal noises

Cute kids book! My boys love the story and all the animal noises.

Published 8 days ago by Amazon Customer

Five Stars

It was a gift for my grandson. Birthday in late June

Published 10 days ago by Richard

I also love the art in this book

We bought this book for our God daughter because it's on of my kids favorites. I also love the art in this book.

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