Sand Castle Bash: Counting from 1 to 10 (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown Series)

by Hunter McKown, David Shannon (Illustrator), Loren Long (Illustrator), David Gordon (Illustrator)

Overview

Rev your engines for another adventure in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown! Perfect for summer or all year long!

Join ten of the Trucktown crew in this all new beach adventure as they compete in this truck-themed sandcastle contest hosted by Jack Truck! Count up from contestants one to ten and look for the numbered flags next to the sandcastle to find each truck's sandy creation. The contest hits high gear when all ten sandcastles have been introduced and the trucks are invited to bash their way through each one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416941798
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	05/05/2009
Series:	Jon Scieszka's Trucktown Series
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and Good Boy Fergus. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka’s Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles.

Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing; the newest version of The Little Engine that Could; Madonna’s second picture book, Mr. Peabody’s Apples; Nightsong by Ari Berk; and the Barnstormers series. He also illustrated Frank McCourt’s Angela and the Baby Jesus and is part of the Design Garage for Jon Scieszka’s Trucktown series. Loren’s work has appeared in Time, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westchester, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.

David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including Toy Story; Monsters, Inc.; A Bug’s Life; Cars; BlueSky’s Robots; and Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants. He’s also written and illustrated several picture books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs, The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. He’s one of the illustrators of Jon Scieszka’s fifty-two-book, New York Times bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.

Editorial Reviews

Part of the fun of sand castles is running through them and starting over again, and that's exactly what happens in this funny and witty board book. Jack Truck, the main character, presents ten sand castles made by his friends, fellow trucks with names such as Dump Truck Dan, Hook and Ladder Lucy, and Cement Mixer Melvin. All of the sand castles made by his friends are wonderful creations, and they include a giant toaster, a tyrannosaurus Rex, and a huge ice cream cone. Jack and his friends are proud of their immense sand castles, but after the last, and tenth, castle is introduced, it's time to plow them under! After all the castles are gone, Jack and his friends decide that they have had such a good time that they'll do it all over again. The writing is humorous and engaging, and the illustrations are bold, relying on the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue. Young children will have such a good time listening to this book that they probably won't even realize that they are being introduced to the numbers one through ten. This book is part of the "Trucktown" series created by Jon Scieszka. According to the back cover, the characters and environments were developed by "Design Garage," a group consisting of David Shannon, Loren Long, and David Gordon, and it is their names that appear on the cover and spine of the book. Reviewer: Leona Illig

Children's Literature - Leona Illig