Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A little red car beeps good night to all of his four-wheeled friends in this fresh take on the classic song, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”
Twinkle, twinkle, little car,
how you love to travel far.
Now it’s time to go to bed.
But you want to drive instead.
It’s time for Little Car to go to sleep, but he isn’t tired yet! So he cruises around town saying goodnight to all of his friends, from the tractors in their shed to the buses and taxis in town to the cranes and diggers at the construction site. Finally exhausted, Little Car putt-putts home where at last his beep-beep dreams begin.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dopirak (You're My Boo) and Peterson (Dig In!) team up for a soothing and smartly executed vehicular riff on a familiar lullaby. The title character a cheerful, googly-eyed convertible decides to go out for a nighttime spin: "Twinkle, twinkle, little car,/ how you love to travel far! Now it's time to go to bed./ But you want to drive instead." Cruising into town, the auto gives good-night beeps to its pals: tractors dozing in a shed, big machines wrapping up work at a construction site, wide-awake emergency response vehicles on call, and a parade of "trucks and taxis, buses too." Despite all of the racing around, Dopirak keeps the mood even-keeled, and the subdued palette of Peterson's digitally colored linoleum block prints does the same. Her chunky nighttime scenes are dominated by swaths of muted gray-blue that contrast with bright white headlight beams and a looping golden road. Even the vehicles' interspersed honks and sirens never get too rowdy, printed in a small, almost polite font. Up to age 8. Author's)
