Book
Vroom vroom : garbage truck / Asia Citro and Troy Cummings.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781943147434 (board book)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: [Seattle, Washington] : The Innovation Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | On board pages. Title from cover. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Refuse collection vehicles > Juvenile fiction. Sound > Juvenile fiction. Board books. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headingley Municipal Library | C CIT (Text) | 36440000272599 | Board Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 January #1
A 30-page tour de force of a board book that is even better than its title would suggest. Given a toddler's natural fascination for heavy equipment in general and for garbage trucks in particular, this volume could have offered far less and still been a hit. But, surprise, this cleverly written and lovingly rendered volume should prove an absolute delight for caregivers and tots alike. This onomatopoeic opus is ideal read-aloud fun, a slice-of-life snapshot of a garbage truck featuring all the signature sounds that alert tykes that the truck is nearby. It's still dark when the titular truck wakes to the "plip plop" of raindrops and then starts with a click, headlights on, ready for a creaking, clanging day of rubbish collection. The illustrations are charming and economical, imbuing the protagonist with huge amounts of personality with surprisingly few (satisfyingly thick) lines. The text is hand-lettered into each illustration; the volume of each "rumble" and "vroom" is conv eyed calligraphically, by the relative sizes of the letters. The day of sanitation engineering is replete with drama and triumph, whether braking for ducklings or backing up ("beep beep beep!!!") to collect trash from a man who overslept ("AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" is the one line of dialogue in the book). The smiling truck dumps its load from its aft end in a panel that could have come from a book on potty training and then heads home for the night. The book may be about garbage, but it's pure gold. (Board book. 1-5) Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 November #1
If a garbage truck told a story, what might it sound like? Citro's titular character does just that, entirely with sound effects: "Rumble Rumble/ Shudder Shudder/ Rattle Rattle Vroom!" Cummings illustrates in thick, chalky lines, rendering the truck with googly headlight eyes and robotlike pincer arms. Along the way, the endearing truck meets other car, human, and animal characters and dutifully backs up to collect garbage from a pajama-clad man. A view of city blocks shows additional trucks making a commotion: "Whir! Bash! Zip! Flump! Slam! Whoosh! Zing!" Citro clearly knows his audienceâin one scene, the garbage truck hunkers down, dumping trash from its rear ("Boop boop boop boop boop boop Whoosh!") before rattling off for a snooze in its garage. Ages up to 5. (Oct.)
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.
