Seymour Simon's Book of Trucks

This book is about all kinds of big earth rumbling trucks. It showes them and there jobs. On each page thier is a different truck. Each truck has its own important job that it does.

This book is about all kinds of big earth rumbling trucks. It shows them and there jobs. On each page there is a different truck. Each truck has its own important job that it does.

I too am a children's librarian. I am a big fan of Seymour Simon's books - he always presents interesting information, clear prose, and beautiful pictures. His truck book, however, seems to suffer from the use of file photos as illustrations instead of any pictures taken just for the book. A few of his photos are not sufficiently illustrative of his text - like his photo of a tractor shows only half of a tractor in dim light. Still, there are plenty of young truck fans out there, and you could do lots worse than this concise book.

Many types of trucks are pictured in the artistic photographs. Their functions are described in a bold font, which is easy to read. Young students will like the variety and the realism, which may feed their imagination, as they role play. This book is sure to be a favorite among truck lovers.