The Little Dump Truck

by Margery Cuyler, Bob Kolar (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet Hard Hat Pete and his little dump truck as they haul stones and rocks, carry debris, and unload at the landfill. It's hard work, but the Little Dump Truck is always ready for action!

Preschool children will revel in the day-to-day activities of this happy dump truck. The lyrical text and bright pictures are just right for budding truck enthusiasts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805099904
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Series:	Little Vehicles , #1
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	385,632
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Margery Cuyler is the author of many popular books for young readers, including the That's Good! That's Bad! series and From Here to There. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.



Bob Kolar has written and illustrated several picture books, including AlphaOops, Racer Dogs, and Hello, Fire Truck. He lives in Lee's Summit, Missouri, with his family.

Editorial Reviews

The cheerful, bouncing rhymes of Cuyler's narrative are instantly endearing…This board book deserves a place in the stroller or a car's back seat, ready to roll past the excavations and building sites that inspired its creators.

The New York Times - Sarah Harrison Smith

Preschoolers will love this book.” —School Library Journal

“The sharp-edged bright blue chassis, lemon-yellow dumper and smiling grill of this hard-working construction vehicle with his cohort of fuel trucks, vans, buses, pickups on heavy stock paper would have made this title a winner in my book. Wait—that's not all! The text can be sung to the nursery favorite, ‘I'm a little teapot!' Try it!” —NickJr.com

“The titular little dump truck cheerily gives the youngest listeners the lowdown on its duties.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A fast storytime favorite.” —Booklist

From the Publisher

PreS—Hard Hat Pete and his little dump truck spend the day hauling rocks, collecting debris, and unloading it at the landfill. Each spread has a lyrical, rhyming verse that begins, "I'm a little dump truck" and goes on to explain the day's activities. "I'm a little dump truck/leaving through the gate,/riding down the highway/to another state." The digital artwork will appeal to young children, who will look for the face depicted on each of the various trucks. The endpapers show all of the vehicles that play a part in the illustrations. The heavy-duty pages are perfect for curious youngsters. Preschoolers will love this book.—Sarah Polace, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma, OH

School Library Journal

The titular little dump truck cheerily gives the youngest listeners the lowdown on its duties. Hard Hat Pete drives the sturdy truck through the city streets, hauling rocks and dirt to a building site where a hole is being filled. Then he waits while an excavator scoops debris for him to haul away to the landfill. While the story does not get much more involved than that, Cuyler rounds it out with lots of details: "I'm a little dump truck / turning at the light, / slowing, braking, stopping / at the building site." With its repetitive beginning phrase and close-enough rhyming scheme, those who read this aloud may find themselves singing the verses to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot." Kolar's anthropomorphized vehicles will remind more than a few children of Bob the Builder, but his use of retro colors separates his trucks from their cartoon counterparts. Blocky, computer-generated art minimizes distracting details while highlighting the important identifying clues that will help preschoolers identify objects. Construction trucks for the youngest set. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews