Little Blue Car sets off on an adventure to the seaside, but when night falls and he isn't yet home he starts to feel frightened. One by one, a friendly lorry, a bus and a tractor show him how to look after himself with his windscreen wipers, his lights and his heater and he soon finds his way home.

This book is part of a book series called Orchard Picture Books .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2006 by Hachette Children's Group .

Gwen Grant has always been a storyteller, right from the time she used to tell her little sister stories before bedtime. Gwen has since had about twenty books published. Gwen lives in Nottinghamshire. Kate Lum lives in Canada and is the author of WHAT which won the Children's Book Award in 1999. Sue Hellard lives in London and is the illustrator of many wonderful books for children. This is her first book for Bloomsbury - but it was such fun working on it we already have another in the pipe-line!