The Little Ice Cream Truck (Little Vehicles #4)

by Margery Cuyler (Author) Bob Kolar (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Little Vehicles

The Little Ice Cream Truck is loaded up with tasty treats in this new addition to ever-popular The Little Dump Truck, The Little School Bus and The Little Fire Truck series.

Join the little ice cream truck and its cheerful driver, Sue, as they trot all over their diverse town to deliver everyone's favorite flavor of ice cream on a hot sunny day. With little ice cream truck's jingly tune and pitstops at a birthday party, a park, and the zoo, this is a joyful new installment in the Little Vehicles series, which focuses on the many daily tasks of working trucks.

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PreS-Gr 2—Another book in Cuyler's "Little Truck" series, this story captures the duties of an ice cream truck as it delivers treats to the families around town. The anthropomorphized truck and its driver named Lou visits a diverse group of children in various locations around the community including the zoo, the park, the athletic fields, family celebrations, and the usual trip around the blocks of the neighborhood. Digital illustrations are bright and perfectly depict different places around a community. Readers will delight in hearing the different types of ice cream the truck carries (Vanilla in a cup, Berry Crunch, lemon ice, Cookie Munch) and will most likely relate it to their own personal ice cream preferences. Ice cream trucks are most synonymous with the melodious sounds that accompany their presence and this ice cream truck is shown going "Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling," which will inspire children to talk about the sounds they are used to hearing when their truck comes around. VERDICT Recommended for general purchase to any picture book collection. A jovial seasonal selection that can quickly be read one-on-one while eliciting memories and planning for sunny days to come.—Kristen Todd-Wurm, Middle Country Public Library, NY

Copyright 2018 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Margery Cuyler
Margery Cuyler has written stories ever since she learned how to write. A children's book editor and author for more than twenty years, she now devotes most of her time to writing. Her many children's books include 100th Day Worries, illustrated by Arthur Howard, and The Biggest, Best Snowman, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. Margery lives with her family in Princeton, New Jersey, in a house that's said to be haunted by a ghost!

S. D. Schindler is the popular and versatile illustrator of many books for children, including Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings series; Skeleton Hiccups and Monster Mess!, both by Margery Cuyler; Big Pumpkin and the ALA Notable Children's Book Don't Fidget a Feather!, both by Erica Silverman; How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky; and Johnny Appleseed by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His website is SDSchindlerBooks.com.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781627798068
Lexile Measure
480
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Publication date
May 22, 2018
Series
Little Vehicles
BISAC categories
JUV023000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JUV057000 - Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
JUV041030 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Cars & Trucks
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Trucks
JUVENILE FICTION / General
Ice cream trucks

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