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After McElmurry's death in 2017, her estate gave permission for others to continue the books in her style. For instance, Good Night, Little Blue Truck (2019) lists Schertle's and McElmurry's names on the front cover, while text inside the book notes that it is "Illustrated by John Joseph in the style of Jill McElmurry."
Two books Barton illustrated were featured on Reading Rainbow: Charlotte Pomerantz's The Tamarindo Puppy and Other Poems (1985) and Diane Siebert's Truck Song (1990). The Horn Book Magazine included six of his books on their lists of the best picture books of the year: Machines at Work (1987); I Want To Be An Astronaut (1988); Bones, Bones ...
Freight Train is a 24-page children's picture book written and illustrated by Donald Crews and published by Greenwillow Books in 1978. It lacks any story, but rather describes the inner workings of a large cargo train. It was named one of 1979's Caldecott Honor books. [1]
The book, like Schmidt's other children's novels, has a "realistic, modern setting" [11] —Pluk drives a little truck and has a difficult time finding a place to live—but his world is full of fairy-tale creatures, such as, in this case, talking cockroaches, pigeons, and seagulls; horses of record-length; extinct fantastical birds; [12] and a wolf who operates a ferry.
The Pushcart War is a popular children's novel by the American writer Jean Merrill, illustrated by Ronni Solbert [1] and first published by W. R. Scott in 1964. It is Merrill's best known work. [1]
Elliot's Great Big Lift-The-Flap Book (2003). A new format of flap book produced by Andrea Beck. Elliot's Fire Truck (2010) is a story about two friends constantly in competition. They try to find common ground between each other and realise they have more in common than they originally thought.
The book was occasionally read by host Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) on his children's television show of the same name. [3] In Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary, the title character starts kindergarten with an inexperienced teacher, Miss Binney, who reads Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel to the class.
Truck Dogs: A Novel in Four Bites is a children's adventure/science fiction novel by Australian author Graeme Base, who is famous for his large picture books such as Animalia. It was published in 2003 and nominated for a CBCA 2004 Book of the Year for younger readers.
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