Bear's Truck is Stuck!

by Patricia Hegarty, Tom Truong (Illustrator)

Overview

Bear's truck is stuck in the mud! His animal friends all try to help him, but none of them can move the truck. Then they come up with an idea that just might work. By lifting a flap or turning a page watch the illustrations change throughout the story with the amazing changing pictures feature!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680100013
Publisher:	Tiger Tales
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Amazing Changing Pictures!
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	AD520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember! As an editor she has worked on titles ranging from atlases to animal pop-ups, craft kits to crazy mazes, and sticker books to secret diaries.

Editorial Reviews

2015-06-29
Can anyone help Billy Bear get his truck out of the deep mud? No question about it, Billy's truck is thoroughly mired—"The big wheels turn and spray and churn / in the thick and gloopy muck." But the rhyme seems to be driving the plot rather than the other way round. Following a comical but random scramble in which a gaggle of eager sheep drives a tractor into the adjacent pond and Clara Cow tumbles down the hill with the farmer's rake, all the animals get together to "push and pull," "lug and tug" (pushing is all that's going on in the art, though) until "the truck's unstuck!" Despite lots of spattered mud in Truong's neatly drawn pictures, somehow none of it sticks to either the truck or any of the animals except (sometimes) the pig. Moreover, four leaves feature framed dissolves that transform the cartoon scene when the cover or a large flap is lifted open, but the moving parts are so poorly integrated with the illustrations that odd fragments are left hanging on most of the tabs. As for the storyline, pull out Marie Hall Ets' classic Elephant in a Well (1972) or any version of "The Great Big Enormous Turnip" for a better telling. Despite the gimmick, likely to draw no more than flecks of interest from either truck fans or muck fans. (Pop-up picture book. 3-5)

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