Big Truck Day

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Get ready for Big Truck Day! Celebrate trucks, reading, sharing, and community with award-winning and New York Timesbestselling author Rosanne Parry and debut illustrator Niki Stage. Big Truck Day is a wonderful choice for readers who love vehicles of all kinds and for fans of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site and Little Blue Truck.

Told in a lively rhyming text, two parallel stories follow children and drivers motoring to the library for a very special event: a book drive! Join friends and neighbors of all ages as they salute big trucks, great books, and community helpers . . . and stay for the reveal of the new library bookmobile made possible by book donations from the community. Hooray!

With New York Timesbestselling author Rosanne Parrys irresistible text and debut illustrator Niki Stages vibrant and detailed illustrations, Big Truck Day is a celebration of libraries, books, communities, and things that go.

Includes a note with archival photographs about the history of bookmobiles.

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A community bustles about in preparation for a big day ahead. A bookmobile and other vehicles are planning to convene in a parking lot. Everyone gets ready for Big Truck Day. . . . The simple rhymes are punctuated with onomatopoeia in a large Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Rosanne Parry is the author of the acclaimed novels A Wolf Called Wander, A Whale of the Wild, Heart of a Shepherd, Second Fiddle, and Written in Stone. She has taught writing at schools, conferences, educational nonprofits, and online at the Loft Literary Center and works as an independent bookseller. She and her family live in an old farmhouse in Portland, Oregon. She writes in a tree house in her backyard.