Off-road Racers!/Crash Course! (Disney/Pixar Cars) (Pictureback

by Frank Berrios, Walt Disney Company (Illustrator)

A two-in-one storybook featuring Lightning McQueen and friends from Disney/Pixar Cars !  This Deluxe Pictureback book features two all-new Cars racing stories plus more than 50 stickers! First, read about how Sarge helps Lightning McQueen defeat the off-road racer known as El Machismo! Then flip the book over to see Lightning race against cheating Chick Hicks and his slick new student!

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

I was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, Queens, and the Bronx. As a New York kid, I remember riding graffiti-covered subways and hearing hip-hop blaring from parks and passing cars on the street. I loved my city. It was always buzzing with activity and different things for kids to see and do.

But I also loved to just sit and read. It started with daily comic strips like Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Then I discovered Mad Magazine and superhero comics like Batman, Spider-Man and Black Panther. These stories dealt with heroes and villains, innocence and guilt, freedom and justice. I became interested in justice and the legal system and was encouraged to become a lawyer. I had enjoyed working with kids as a counselor at a summer day camp, so I also thought about being a teacher. But after graduating from college, I knew that being a lawyer or a teacher just wasn’t right for me.

I found a temp job at DC Comics in midtown Manhattan. I answered phones, sorted mail, and did other small jobs. It wasn’t creative work, but I met cool people and got lots of free comics. That led to a full-time job in the Editorial Department. I went from reading comic books for fun, to working with legends in the comic book industry. Before long, I moved from DC Comics to Random House Children’s Books, where I’ve worked on a wide variety of Disney and Nickelodeon books over the last twenty years.

I’ve also written several Little Golden Books, including Black Panther, The Amazing Spider-Man, Falcon, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, I Am Captain Kirk and Too Many Tribbles! as well as My Little Golden Book about Jackie Robinson, Football with Dad and Soccer with Mom.

Reviews

[Dan Ray]

This book is an "every night for a month now" read and it's making me a bit crazy.
My son sure loves it though, so I have to call that a success.

Simple characters, a good guy with supporting good buddy, a bad guy with supporting evil henchman.
Simple stories about a race. The good guys win. There's a simple moral lesson.

The art is fair but not great. I hope I can branch out into other books soon and he'll get tired of this one.

[Kathryn]

Disney did good with these two short stories combined in one book. Great book to reinforce hard work versus cheating. Easily lends itself to discussing morals and ethics with a four year old. haha ;)

[Richelle Starke]

(We only read Crash Course)

[Sri]

Buku kesukaan Damar. Bercerita tentang balapan di Autovia yang merupakan rangkaian balapan Race-O-Rama. Lightning McQueen berpartner dengan Sarge, yang pakarnya offroad, melawan Chick yang menggandeng El Machismo, mobil 4x4 yang sangar. Kisah balapannya diwarnai kecurangan Chick tapi tentu saja diakhiri dengan kemenangan sang tokoh idola.
Ternyata buku Cars banyak banget. Waktu ke toko buku udah ngiler pengin beli semuanya. Untung yang punya hajat, si Damar, cuma mau memilih satu buku walaupun sudah diiming-imingi juga buku Toy Story 3 yang filmnya baru saja dia tonton sebagai film perdananya yang ditonton di bioskop :P.

[Elizabeth]

Cars books always a big hit in this house with the little munchkin.