If you're looking for a great read-aloud starring trucks, you can't go wrong with Alice Schertle's Little Blue Truck, a perennial favorite at our library. In this story the little blue truck greets each each animal it meets along the road with a "beep", and the animals respond in kind with their own unique greeting. The big bully dump truck however, doesn't have time for such greetings and nearly mows everyone down before plowing deep into the mud. It takes everyone's help to get unstuck, and in the end the bully dump truck acknowledges "a lot depends on a helping hand from a few good friends".This book offers more than a good message about friendship. The animal noises, truck sounds, and rhyming couplets all work to help your child pay attention to the music in our language-a powerful pre-literacy skill that will come in handy when your child is beginning to read. Other good books in our library that feature trucks and construction sounds include Little Blue Truck's sequel, Little Blue Truck Leads the Way, Jackhammer Sam, by Peter Mandel, I'm a Truck Driver by Jonathan London, and Wake up, Engines, by Denise Dowling Mortensen.
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