Overview
Award-winning author Alexandra Siy's lyrical text and Jacqueline Roger's whimsical watercolors are certain to delight young vehicle lovers.A sleepy backyard doesn't stay quiet for long. Pirates sail in, and the backyard teems with the movement of airplanes, cranes, trucks, and trains.
Synopsis
Award-winning author Alexandra Siy's lyrical text and Jacqueline Roger's whimsical watercolors are certain to delight young vehicle lovers.
A sleepy backyard doesn't stay quiet for long. Pirates sail in, and the backyard teems with the movement of airplanes, cranes, trucks, and trains.
Children's Literature
This counting book by Jacqueline Siy doubles as a fun-filled tribute to imaginative play. While contemplating his one toy tractor, a little boy notices two mouse-piloted planes and three small pirate ships. Soon the boy and his tiny new companions are hard at work building a town in the sandbox and adding six city buses and seven fire trucks to it. The book ends with a surprise, though, when the boy sends his small buddies on their way. The last double-page spread reveals the boy asleep on the grass and surrounded by the toys he dreamed of. Little ones will love lingering over the details—busy machines, scooter-riding buccaneers—in the watercolors by Jacqueline Rogers. Reviewer: Mary Quattlebaum
Editorials
Children's Literature -
This counting book by Jacqueline Siy doubles as a fun-filled tribute to imaginative play. While contemplating his one toy tractor, a little boy notices two mouse-piloted planes and three small pirate ships. Soon the boy and his tiny new companions are hard at work building a town in the sandbox and adding six city buses and seven fire trucks to it. The book ends with a surprise, though, when the boy sends his small buddies on their way. The last double-page spread reveals the boy asleep on the grass and surrounded by the toys he dreamed of. Little ones will love lingering over the details—busy machines, scooter-riding buccaneers—in the watercolors by Jacqueline Rogers. Reviewer: Mary QuattlebaumSchool Library Journal
K-Gr 2- This is a counting book, a vehicle book, and a pirate adventure, all rolled into one appealing package. It starts with one red-headed boy and a toy tractor. Next come two airplanes, one of which is piloted by a mouse. The fun really gets rolling when three miniature pirate ships arrive, complete with crews of the jolliest sort. The little swashbucklers cavort through the remaining scenes of big machines at work. There are four cranes, five big trucks, six city buses, seven fire trucks, eight bulldozers, and nine railroad cars, and the charmingly playful pirates are not always adept at using this big equipment. In the end, after rides on 10 bicycles, they return to their ships and sail away. But it is all a dream. The boy is shown sound asleep in the grass with his toy vehicles around him. The fabulous watercolor illustrations show blue sky, green grass, and all the commotion going on in between.-Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI
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