Fire Trucks

Hear the loud sirens. See the flashing lights. This fire truck is on the move! What kind of gear do firefighters keep in their trucks And how do the trucks help firefighters battle fires Read this book to find out! Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books™ bring nonfiction topics to life!

Describes the parts of a fire truck, the tools it carries, and the work it helps firemen to do.

Hear the loud sirens. See the flashing lights. This fire truck is on the move! What kind of gear do firefighters keep in their trucks And how do the trucks help firefighters battle fires Read this book to find out! Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books™ bring nonfiction topics to life!

Children's Literature

Young readers will delight in this thirty-two-page book filled with words they can read and pictures that closely match the text. Four short chapters plus a fire truck diagram, fun facts, a glossary, extra reading and an index make up this early reader in the "Vroom, vroom" series. Sound words "splash, sizzle, whee-ooo, whee-ooo" add to the reading fun. Bright and colorful close-up photos bring the fire to life and place the reader close to the action. Captions related to the photos also work as sidebars to add more information to the text. Readers find out what a fire truck carries, how the trucks go to a fire, what fire fighters do when they get to a fire, and fire truck equipment that can reach fires way up high. They will also discover how many wheels are on the truck and that a fire truck is like a big tool box. End-of-book facts tell readers that fire trucks can cost as much as forty cars, early trucks had horses for power not engines, and why some fire trucks are painted yellow instead of red. All in all, the pace of the books keeps rolling along to hold the interest of youngsters in grades K through two or three. Reviewer: Nancy Garhan Attebury

Judith Jango-Cohen's career began in the classroom, where she created lessons to excite her students' interest in science. Eleven years later, after the birth of her two children, she turned to writing full time. Her adventures as a naturalist and photographer have inspired her forty-two books, which cover an assortment of subjects from Bionics to Ben Franklin and from ladybugs to librarians. Besides researching and writing books, Judith also writes science news stories for Scholastic classroom magazines.

As a former teacher, Judith loves visiting classrooms and libraries to share her stories as a writer/photographer and to help children learn to express themselves through poetry and prose. She also enjoys meeting teachers and librarians when she presents programs at conferences.

Judith's titles have been selected for the Children's Choices Reading List by the IRA/CBC, recommended by the National Science Teacher's Association, chosen for the Children's Literature Choice List, named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book by the NCSS/CBC, and selected as Best Children's Books of the Year by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College.