Love Is a Truck
No. of pages 24
Published: 2016
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This book is part of a book series called Love Is .
There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Cameron & Company Inc .
Amy Novesky is a children's book editor and the author of Elephant Prince: The Story of Ganesh. She lives with her family just north of the city that inspired Frida Kahlo, San Francisco. David Diaz is the Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator of Smoky Night. He is also a three-time Pura Belpre Honor recipient. Sara Gillingham is an award-winning art director, designer and author-artist who has helped develop many bestselling books for children. She lives with her family near Vancouver, Canada.
This book is in the following series:
"With everything from dump trucks to ice-cream trucks, this honey of a title conveys the simple joy of creative play. Thick pages make this a delight to hold for multiple readings either one-on-one in a lap or in a baby program at the library." - School Library Journal, Starred
"Novesky and Gillingham follow Love Is a Tutu with a lighthearted, vehicle-centric reflection on love. Some of the analogies in Novesky's mostly unrhymed verse work better than others: the idea that 'Love is a loader. Love is a lifter' in one constructed-themed scene has real resonance, compared to lines that just name-check vehicles ('Love is a dump truck, rounded with dirt./ A bulldozer, a digger, a rolling cement mixer'). Gillingham's clean graphics showcase one child's very evident love of toy trucks; the brown-skinned, overalls-clad child's gender isn't apparent, a reminder that truck love is universal." - Publishers Weekly
"Love IS a truck! At least it is to my son, and this book is right on the money. There's a companion title called Love Is a Tutu, but I'm Team Truck. It's great to see Sara Gillingham bringing out a new book or two too." - Betsy Bird, Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library
