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Dump Truck Duck

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Dump Truck Duck by Megan E. Bryant, Jo de Ruiter

Dump Truck Duck honks and zooms and steers his dump truck all through the day, helping the other hardworking ducks build a new park. With adorable illustrations and playful rhyming text, Dump Truck Duck is certain to become a new read-aloud favorite!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807517369
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	557,142
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)
Lexile:	AD660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Megan E. Bryant is the author of more than 170 books for children. Her books Mythlopedia: Oh My Gods! and Mythlopedia: She's All That! were VOYA Honor Books. She lives in North Carolina. Jo de Ruiter graduated from Lincoln University in the UK with a masters in design, specializing in illustration. She lives in the UK with her husband.

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"Illustrations filled with happy worker ducks moving textured dirt in colorful construction vehicles should appeal to digger fans." —The Horn Book Guide

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05/01/2016
Toddler-PreS—Dump Truck Duck is in for a busy day. He is the first one at the work site as the sun comes up. "He fills his truck up to the top/with gravel, grass, and gritty glop;/with brambly brush and slimy stuff./The truck can take it. The truck is tough." He is soon joined by a dozer and a digger, and they work to clear land. Dump Truck Duck spends his day hauling loads away. Even when his truck breaks down and needs some repairs, he is not stopped. Finally, the work site is turned over to builders and gardeners, who finish a beautiful park for all to enjoy. This is a pretty standard construction story, starting with a dirty lot and ending with a playground. The text scans well, and the cute cartoon illustrations show lots of working trucks. VERDICT Nothing new here, but can there ever be enough construction books? A fine addition.—Laura Stanfield, Campbell County Public Library, Fort Thomas, KY

School Library Journal

2016-02-17
Bouncy rhythms and catchy rhymes will entrance truck-loving tots as they listen to this tale of truck ducks doing their jobs. Dump Truck Duck is the first to arrive at the site, and his job is to clear the debris: "He fills the truck up to the top / with gravel, grass, and gritty glop; / with brambly brush and slimy stuff. / The truck can take it. The truck is tough." Dozer Duck and Digger Duck soon join him to help load the dump truck and level the site. Finally, the builder ducks and gardener ducks arrive to do their jobs, and by the final spreads, a new park has been built, complete with gazebo, walking trails, sod, and a playground, all with a creek nearby, which the dirty ducks take advantage of after a hard day's work. Then it's buckle up and drive off under the stars. Bryant's rollicking verse carries readers right along with it, and the rhymes are easy to predict, making this one preschoolers can chime in on. De Ruiter's ducks (a diverse sort of many colors and patterns, and, if eyelash codes are accurate, fairly evenly divided between male and female) and their marvelous trucks take center stage, and some of the early illustrations of the messy site may even spark discussions about litter and pollution. A fine addition to the truck shelf. (Picture book. 2-6)

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