Little Monster Trucks GO!

by Doug Cenko

Overview

Little monster trucks are met with challenge after challenge and must find a way to stay on the road and finish the race! Will they all make it, and who will win?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936669837
Publisher:	blue manatee press
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	728,468
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Doug Cenko lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. He is the illustrator of Cats!, and the author/illustrator of My Mama is a Mechanic and My Papa is a Princess. The six-year old version of Doug is freaking out right now that someone let him make a book with a transforming cheese monster truck.

Editorial Reviews

2020-01-12
What starts as a standard auto race evolves (quite literally) into a cooperative lesson.

Primed and pumped to conquer, five "scrappy little monster trucks" (resembling a cat, wedge of Swiss cheese, knight, shark, and unicorn) race one another along a twisty, turny obstacle course. Fortunately, every problem they encounter has a solution, as the trucks use their special features to escape muck and leap over gaps. But what's this? A humongous boulder stumps the intrepid racers such that none can beat it separately. Then, in a singularly Voltron-esque move, the trucks shift their parts and combine to form a single "Monster Bot" capable of stomping the stony impediment to bits. The result? A five-way tie, naturally. Unexciting art gets the job done, not impressing with style so much as with mild ingenuity. As these are little trucks, it seems fitting that it's the book's little touches (such as the cheese truck's grater mode or the cat truck's extendable claws) that are the most droll. Alas, what it lacks in looks it does not quite make up for in writing. Perfunctory rhymes occasionally give way to soft ones ("A MONSTER leap with mid-air flips / The gap's TOO BIG! They'll DROP LIKE BRICKS!"). Adult readers may twitch, but the young and vehicularly obsessed probably won't mind.

Monster mehs. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews