So I stand in the street in the middle of the crowd and say it again and say it loud: Look! There! Can't you see? . . .
Cement is mixed in truck14, and 15 carries gasoline.
"Watch out!" Two trucks are in the way. They stop a third truck carrying hay.
An officer blows his whistle. Another waves her hands.
"The truck picture book genre ratchets up a notch with the glorious depiction of, count 'em, 20 tantalizingly colored and deliciously varied trucks, jammed on the narrow, twisting streets of a city neighborhood." -Booklist
20 BIG TRUCKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET
This book received a starred review from Kirkus, and made Amazon's list of the 20 Best Picture Books of 2013 (Ages 3-5). The Wall Street Journal offered: "This softly rhyming picture book presents children with a small but exciting dilemma that quickly involves- hurrah! -all sorts of trucks." --Candlewick 2013.
Copyright Kurt Cyrus 1997 - 2022