Garage Tales

(Hardback)

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Three of the best-selling Ready to Rolls are bunched together for the latest Trucktown hardcover.

In PETE'S PARTY, Jack and Gabby navigate, swerve, curve and bounce around the roads of Trucktown until they arrive at Pete's place for a party.

Max is having so much fun that he keeps getting stuck. It takes all of Trucktown to get him out in UH-OH, MAX!

Everyone's favorite ice cream truck is doing everything he can think of to make himself dizzy. Nothing seems to be working as well as he'd like. Izzy goes through the car wash, gets covered in suds, and spins himself in circles. He gets in a tizzy, feels whizzy and fizzy, but is he ever DIZZY IZZY

Author Bio

Jon Scieszka is the creator of Trucktown, including the New York Times bestselling Smash, Crash!, 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 GuysRead.com,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 Scieszkas Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.

Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obamas Of Thee I Sing; the newest version of The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper; Madonnas second picture book, Mr. Peabodys Apples; Nightsong by Ari Berk; Frank McCourts Angela and the Baby Jesus; Love by Matt de la Pea; and If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano. He also wrote and illustrated the Otis series and was part of the Design Garage for Jon Scieszkas Trucktown series. Lorens work has appeared in Time, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.

David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including Toy Story; Monsters, Inc.; A Bugs Life; Cars; BlueSkys Robots; and Nickelodeons Spongebob Squarepants. Hes also written and illustrated several picture books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs, The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. Hesone of the illustrators of Jon Scieszkas fifty-two-book, New York Times bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.