The setting is a city populated by expressive Pixar-style cars, trucks, and other motorized characters with windshield eyes and smiley bumpers. A variety of helpful trucks and service vehicles go about their work, including ambulances, fire engines, helicopters, tow trucks, blue-hatted police cruisers, delivery vans, school buses, dump trucks, street cleaners, repair vehicles that clean up after storm damage, and food trucks that keep other vehicles well fed. They all work hard and deserve our appreciation, notes the narrator: \u201cSo, when you\u2019re riding through your town, \/ make sure you stop to look around, \/ and wave and shout a big \u2018thank you!\u2019 \/ To helper trucks for all they do.\u201d Riera brings the setting to life with simple rhyming couplets and creative variations of type size, color, and orientation. Weizman\u2019s two-page-spread illustrations again portray a busy, vibrant city with denizens whose pun-based names give them delightful character; for example, there\u2019s musician tour bus Trailer Swift, street cleaner Sweeping Beauty, and power-line repair truck Volts Wagon. The author\u2019s appealing fondness for wordplay extends to the Brake Dance Academy and a drive-in cinema showing Alfa Romeo and Juliet. Young readers will enjoy the tour\u2014as will many adults.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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