编辑推荐:Bold Jack Truck and Payloader Pete encourage Cement Mixer Melvin and Rescue Rita to follow them rolling down a steep hill onto an incomplete bridge ramp and flying across a pit to the other side. Melvin just watches them and shivers, too scared to try, but when Rita, an ambulance, falls into the pit, though, he finds the courage to make the leap to help his friend. Possibly the first cement truck to wear glasses, Melvin makes a sympathetic main character for worried preschoolers, who can overlook the cartoonlike unreality of the action scenes. The copyright page notes that the illustrations were digitally drawn by Juan Pablo Navas and colored by Isabel Nadal and were apparently based on "characters and environments developed by David Shannon, Loren Long, and David Gordon." The personified vehicles will appeal to truck-loving tots, though their parents may be less enthusiastic about reading, much less rereading, the story. For libraries with avid Trucktown fans.
内容简介:Cement Mixer Melvin worries a lot. He worries he might get dirty. He worries he might get stuck. He even worries he might get worried. But one fateful day Rescue Rita is in need of a little rescuing, and Trucktown's biggest worrywart is the only one who can save the day. There's just one problem: He worries he can't. Jon Scieszka's latest racing and rollicking installment to the Trucktown franchise is a hilarious (and maybe even a little heartwarming) look at all the things a cement mixer can do... no matter how much he worries!
作者简介:Jon Scieszka is the creator of Trucktown and the author of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, the Time Warp Trio series, Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man, and many other books that inspire kids to want to read. He has worked as an elementary school teacher and is the founder of a literacy initiative for boys.
David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and Good Boy Fergus. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.
David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and Good Boy Fergus. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.