If You Were a Garbage Truck or Other Big-Wheeled Worker!
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The perfect picture book for any vehicle-obsessed kid to see life through the eyes of a big-wheeled worker!
Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site discover how big-wheeled vehicles really feel about the work they do. This raucous rhyming story puts preschoolers in the driver's seat as their favorite vehicles reveal the ups and downs of being a busy truck.
Do diggers wish they were as big as an excavator or are they happy with the holes they can dig? Do trains get tired of staying on the same track or do they welcome all the passengers aboard? Bright and lively illustrations bring each vehicle to life.
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Many vehicle-themed books ask readers to imagine that they're operating the rigs. Ohanesian's rhyming lines asks what it would be like to be the big wheeler itself—and present, through rhetorical questions, dual philosophical approaches to labor, emphasizing values of selflessness and courageousness. Surely readers wouldn't complain "Pew-yew! Yuck! Yuck!" if they were a garbage truck being filled up with smelly trash; wouldn't they, instead, "feel so big and proud,/ Beep your horn and shout out loud/ That you're the town's most trusted waste recycler?" Chou's sunny, mural-like digital spreads show a wide range of anthropomorphized vehicles—a train, a plow, a digger, a crane, and a bus, among others—doing their work with no excuses and plenty of good cheer, alongside an array of appreciative dot-eyed humans of various skin tones and abilities. What the pages lack in socio-emotional nuance, they make up for in lightly proffered, important lessons about responsibility, resilience, and get 'er done spirit. Ages 4–8.
