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122nd out of 314 books
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23 voters
Truck
by
Donald Crews
A big, red truck makes its way...from the loading dock, down the city streets, through the tunnel, and over the miles toward its destination. There's plenty to see along the way: busy superhighways, all-night diners, road signs, and road scenes. A trip very young readers will want to make again and again.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 25th 1991
by Turtleback Books
(first published February 29th 1980)
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The plot of this wordless picture book is simple: a truck goes from A to B. This simplicity is its greatest asset. It relaxes, much like the TV programs, shown after regular programming has ended, in which a train or a car with a camera in front makes its way through the country. What keeps it interesting is the question: what's around the next corner? Or in the case of TRUCK: what's on the next page? Where will it be then? (A misty Golden Gate bridge was my favourite answer to these questions.)...more
Aug 03, 2010
Shanna Gonzalez
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-00-04
Semi trucks, with their noise and power, hold an unspeakable attraction for young children, especially boys. This wordless book follows a semi on one of its long journeys -- through tunnels, over bridges, through traffic, with a stopover at a truck stop... ending at the loading dock with a cargo if tricycles unloaded. The outsized bulk of the truck is emphasized in close-up view by showing only portions of it when close-up, and there is a wonderful aerial perspective of its place in the traffic...more
A very fun wordless book to go with my Truck theme. There are so many things I can have the kids point out to me, including colors. (The colors in this book are bright and cheerful.) This should be fun, and the kids always enjoy the ones where they help me "read" the book. Wonderful choice for truck lovers, especially for a lap-read or read-alone with them.
1/23/13 This was a fabulous choice for my Truck theme. The kids loved telling me the colors of the trucks around. They got the stop sign. The...more
1/23/13 This was a fabulous choice for my Truck theme. The kids loved telling me the colors of the trucks around. They got the stop sign. The...more
This story follows the journey of a semi-truck and its trip across the country. It shows all of the places that are involved in moving a truck and all of the steps that it takes to get to the destination. This book would be a great tool to make up characters and make up a story, especially for young boys who cannot read yet. The book is about a Kindergarten level and below and helps student and children with their imagination, while also informing them of the trucking industry. I liked this book...more
I tend to do better with wordless picture books the second time I read them. The first time through, I'm never sure it will continue to be wordless through the end, so I'm not sure how if I should change my reading style.
There are words to read in this book. Words on the side of trucks and words on signs, etc. First time through, I read it to my preschooler by reading all those words. She was a little confused. Second time through we made up stories and talked on each page and enjoyed it a litt...more
There are words to read in this book. Words on the side of trucks and words on signs, etc. First time through, I read it to my preschooler by reading all those words. She was a little confused. Second time through we made up stories and talked on each page and enjoyed it a litt...more
Truck, written by Donald Crews does itself justice by being wordless. The intrinsic illustrations are a wonderful way to get young children exciting about books. Being that this is a Caldecott winner, it makes it an excellent wordless book for children. As readers follow a big red truck on its journey, they are met with road signs, other vehicles, and traffic jams.
This is a great book for the young to visually see automobiles in their natural setting. This book is probably more interesting for...more
This is a great book for the young to visually see automobiles in their natural setting. This book is probably more interesting for...more
Oct 13, 2012
Paul
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
caldecott,
childrens-lit
This book could also be titled SIGNS for all the text that covers vehicles, directional signs, and more. Following the truck through the city to deliver tricycles is an unfolding journey. What puzzles me is why the only time from beginning to end of the book the word TRUCK appears on the trailer is in the title, while in all other illustrations throughout, TRUCKING appears on its trailer. Not as good a title, but it seems to break the continuity a little.
Mar 01, 2011
Kim
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
boys-reads-picture,
cars-trains-buses
Maybe good for a lapsit storytime with a boy, but I'm always thinking in storytime mode and this story does nothing for me. Sometimes I use wordless books for "What do you think will happen next?" but that doesn't really work for this one, because the answer is "the truck keeps driving" after every page.
By all means, however, good for boys to look at and learn the text on the illustrations on their own time.
By all means, however, good for boys to look at and learn the text on the illustrations on their own time.
Truck by Donald Crews is a very simple children's book that I think I would have liked better as a child. The illustrations definitely seem to match the time period in which the book was produced. I do like the bright, vibrant colors, but I think the story lacked direction and plot. However, the book is intended for children and would give children an understanding of various trucks and their route.
1980: Trucks by Donald Crews (Greenwillow Books)
Caldecott Honor
Realistic Fiction
This book has no words to tell the story. The pictures tell of a big red truck that is filled with tricycles, traveling out of a big city across the country. It arrives at another big city where the tricycles are unloaded. The drawings are very clean, simple and easy to understand.
Caldecott Honor
Realistic Fiction
This book has no words to tell the story. The pictures tell of a big red truck that is filled with tricycles, traveling out of a big city across the country. It arrives at another big city where the tricycles are unloaded. The drawings are very clean, simple and easy to understand.
This book didn't have quite enough content for me. I like the fact that early readers would be able to identify words based on signs, and I liked that the text was only on the pictures. It was creative, but I saw little usefulness in this book. This might be interesting for a child who likes trucks and would want to follow the red truck as it's trucking along.
This bright, blocky poster-style book showing the progress of a tractor-trailer truck moving from one city to another is wordless, though I don't get excused from reading the signs shown on the pages by my toddler. However, the ability to follow the story, discuss what's going on on the page, and think about how words appear in the environment make it a fun book to share with your pre-reader. Very attractive design; my four year old wants it again and again.
This is a wonderful story without words. I was at first a bit nervous as to how a book can be good if it didn't have words but now I understand. I sat and read this book with my friend's 2 year old and she loved the pictures! It's so neat to see a story told only through pictures. I think young children would love this book.
This book is fueling my obsession with all vehicles, especially trucks. I really like the page with the bus coming out of the tunnel as the truck is entering the tunnel. I'm not so into the pages with the bridge and the fog or at night, when the truck is fueling up with some diesel. Still, it's a cool book.
Great illustrations show a truck take tricycles from the factory to the store. The reader goes on the trip with the truck, seeing sights throughout the country.
Themes - traffic, traveling
After looking through this book with students, you could have them discuss what the drive from their house to school looks like.
Themes - traffic, traveling
After looking through this book with students, you could have them discuss what the drive from their house to school looks like.
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It's so wierd how they're genetically wired to go vroom and push stuff as soon as they can crawl. We raised our son in a yello room, no footballs or cars on the walls or his clothing and his fifth word was backhoe? Truck is a fun book and we grew to love all Crews' books for kids.
It's so wierd how they're genetically wired to go vroom and push stuff as soon as they can crawl. We raised our son in a yello room, no footballs or cars on the walls or his clothing and his fifth word was backhoe? Truck is a fun book and we grew to love all Crews' books for kids.
This is entirely wordless except for road signs and things written on the cars and trucks that go by. The main truck in the story is bright red and easy to spot on each page. I like the bold colors and clean lines of the illustrations. I think I would like this even more reading it with a young child.
Wordless: Truck, by Donald Crews has very little words and is almost entirely dependent on illustrations. Crews covers nearly everything to do with trucks, including tunnels, signs, diesel fuel, and truck stops. Some of the details of this book would be better appreciated by adults. The book is entirely sequential and each pages builds upon the other, yet not dependent on the previous page. The illustrations are well-done, yet stuff and linear. Truck will most likely be appealing to young boys....more
TRUCKS!!!
This book is very arty. There are some pages where I can see some great trucks, and some pages that are still a little too obscure for me... BUT -- there is a section in the middle that shows a whole highway full of trucks from above, and that's what I'm talking about!!!
This book is very arty. There are some pages where I can see some great trucks, and some pages that are still a little too obscure for me... BUT -- there is a section in the middle that shows a whole highway full of trucks from above, and that's what I'm talking about!!!
I loved the clean graphic look of this wordless book. There are several ways it encourages readers to make inferences: what can we tell about the signs, weather, traffic, direction the truck takes? The concept of getting from one place to another over time is also clearly presented.
Mar 02, 2013
Diana Ferguson
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
picture-book,
urban
I was a little disappointed in this one, as Freight Train is one of my favorite picture books, and certainly contains my favorite illustration of all time. This one is perfectly well done and I would probably like it more if I didn't love Freight Train so much.
very few words. great pictures. Caldecott Honor Book. Definitely a good resource for teaching another language if you want a book that is easy to talk about while describing the pictures. Some kids might recognize the words from signs like "East" "West" etc.
Penned by the same author as "Freight Train," this book proves you don't need words to capture the mind of a little boy.
A pure picture book, it captivates him from the first page.
He has read it -- or looked at the vivid pictures of trucks -- numerous times since bringing this book home about a week ago.
This morning, he woke up, ran into the living room and grabbed this book and asked for it to be read to him.
An instant Emerson classic.
MOOK
A pure picture book, it captivates him from the first page.
He has read it -- or looked at the vivid pictures of trucks -- numerous times since bringing this book home about a week ago.
This morning, he woke up, ran into the living room and grabbed this book and asked for it to be read to him.
An instant Emerson classic.
MOOK
This wordless picture book involves a red truck and what this truck does. The pictures consist of the truck going down a highway, thru a tunne, traveling in the rain. etc. It's a great prediction book of where you think the truck might be going.
Aug 17, 2010
Libby
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-s,
picture-book
I'm torn about this one because my 23-mo-old son seems to like it a lot, but I hate reading it because I never know what to say (there are no words). There's not a lot going on... a truck drives to deliver some bikes.
This book doesn't seem to have much of a point. The only words in the book are really the street signs and the word "trucking" on the side of a truck. This may be good for talking about reading signs as a form of literacy.
Beautifully designed illustrations, David Crews highlights traffic signals and various trucks throughout the book. The fact that word parts are often cut out of the images, invites inferring from children.
Oct 18, 2010
Megan
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
childrens-lit,
picture-books
My son LOVED "Freight Train" by Crews so I decided to see what else this author had... and now "Truck" is one of his absolute faves. This is a wordless picture book, but what can I say... my boy loves trucks!
Even though this is a picture book, kids can still understand the message. It shows pictures of the different kinds of trucks and signs. This is a good book for a child to use to make up a story.
This is a wordless book made up of pictures of a truck driving. It doesn't really have much of a story, but it is nice to look at. Boys (or girls) who enjoy vehicles may find it appealing.
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Nov 24, 2012 02:40pm