The Mighty Street Sweeper

by Patrick Moore

Despite its size, the street sweeper has one mighty job! The street sweeper is a little truck with a very big job. While it is not the largest, fastest, or most powerful truck, a street sweeper does something that no other truck can it keeps our streets clean. And a street sweeper is so much fun to watch.
Colorful illustrations and an engaging compare-and-contrast text make this picture book a delight for budding truck-lovers.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2006

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Reviews

[Margaret Boling · Rating 4 out of 5]

10/24/2017 ** I thoroughly enjoyed this book about the humble but important street sweeper. Vehicle buffs will enjoy the schematic drawings on the cover papers. Mentor readers (adults) may enjoy having a compare/contrast discussion with their young reading partners/listeners.

Source: This book was suggested to me by a friend - an enjoyable vehicle book.

[SLoMoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always love this delightful book. It definitely feels like a book that the adult reader enjoys more than the child. We’ve read this book many times, but it’s been a few years since our last reading. I just love the humor in comparing a street sweeper to mighty trucks. I also think it would be a simple book to demonstrate compare and contrast writing.

[Richelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute books about different types of trucks and what they do.

[Silvia Korchumova · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute illustrations and clever humor!

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is really not relevant to my learners. For a variety of reasons, when streets do get cleaned here (which is rare) it is by little old men who would be long retired in a developed country who are paid less than 15Q an hour (less than 2 dollars an hour) to rake garbage. The garbage that /is/ removed from streets is raked (and then put up on top of the mountain where it gets washed back down into the lake - not a great system). So rural Guatemalan kids are not familiar with a vehicle used for cleaning streets. The other vehicles introduced in the book are not familiar either. Rural Guatemala is a somewhat "primitive" place in that there is not a lot of technology or paved roads. Construction that does happen is all concrete. Sand for this concrete is sifted using window-sized screens, and men, women and children (unfortunately) use shovels to put the sand mixture onto the screens and create piles of usuable concrete material. This process does not include construction trucks of any kind. Concrete is mixed by people (men).

[Kristi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not much for writing reviews - but when any book inspires my son to ask for it over and over, it wins my vote. This book inspires a little rooting for the underdog - which my son did pretty passionately. I think it's nice that a book compares how the street sweeper isn't the biggest, fastest, most powerful truck - but it still has unique qualities that the other trucks (and drivers!) need. :)

[Chelsea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty sad little drawings but my son loved the story. I have read this to him from the library many times in the last few days!

[Christi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mei Mei really liked this book, requested it several times. It is pretty cute (the idea of it) but the illustrations weren't my favorite.