Barbara Odanaka

This is a book for all those preschoolers who are entranced by trucks and heavy equipment, especially very LOUD trucks, especially garbage trucks. Two little pig children wake up with a thrill because they hear the GARBAGE TRUCKS coming. In rhyming couplets, we celebrate the noises, the intriguing grossness, the thrill of the watching the trucks and their ingestion of trash, and finally, the opportunity to imitate the whole thing with one's own toys. Lots of opportunity for wordfun, shouting along with the reader, and rhyming; brightly colored illustrations showing trash, trucks and (pig) sanitation workers along with some hanging-about dogs will capture the attention of most truck-lovers and all garbage truck fans. Pair with Kate McMullen's "I STINK!" and Andrea Zimmerman's "Trashy Town" for a garbage-truck readathon.… (altro)