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Summary
Roll into one little boy's make-believe traffic world, filled with flashing lights, zooming cars, whirring helicopters, and racing fire engines. He's turned records into rotaries, shoe boxes and books into highway ramps, crayons into lane markers, and dandelions into trees. It's a world where imagination rules and creativity abounds.
With its bouncy rhyming text and bright illustrations, this book is perfect for every preschooler who loves planes, trains, and automobiles. It's a bold introduction to how vehicles stop . . . and go !
Author Notes
ANASTASIA SUEN is the author of many children's books, including Subway and Window Music. She lives in Plano, Texas.
KEN WILSON-MAX is the talented and innovative illustrator of more than thirty books for children, including 101 Trucks by Sam Williams and his own Little Red Plane . He lives in London.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-In this fun and lively presentation, a youngster sets up his toy vehicles and action figures to show busy traffic patterns, a train crossing, tolls, a fire engine responding to a call, and road-condition reports from the helicopter overhead. The flowing text rhymes and has a good pace and rhythm, which makes it an ideal read-aloud for transportation fans. The illustrations are bright and full of detail. Children will have plenty to peruse and will go back again and again to catch everything they missed. The story will definitely spark their imaginations and can also be used to encourage creative play.-Lisa S. Schindler, Bethpage Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
(Preschool) ""Red light, stop. / Green light, go. // Cars and trucks / drive to and fro."" A brief text describes the movement of cars, trucks, and traffic helicopters, while the illustrations use a variety of toys and found objects to show creative play. Before the first page of text we see a child choosing cars from his toy shelf, but once the text begins we enter a play world in which the child all but disappears until the very last page. Relaxed and painterly acrylics employ thick, colorful outlines and simplified shapes. The perspective is mostly low to the ground, so the scenes quickly achieve an illusion of reality -- briefly altered by details like a zebra waiting at a crosswalk and stacks of books holding up the elevated highway. The unassuming text and art provide a thoroughly absorbing experience. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A toddler plays king of the world as he maneuvers his toy vehicles around the track. Not only does he report traffic, he creates it. Enhanced with a toy robot, baseballs, chess pieces, a teddy bear and pencils, the track is multilevel, varied and propped up with stacks of books and shoeboxes. Included are trucks, trains, helicopters, buses, fire engines and of course, traffic lights. All this is conveyed, in great majority, by the illustrations that offer a bird's eye view of the workings of a child's clever imagination. The rhyming tempo is simple and straightforward, covering several automotive modes of transportation and their trappings: "Red lights flash. / Rail cars roll. /At the booth, / pay a toll." Simply put, this is geared toward the youngest of car-crazy kids. The artwork is lively and rendered in thick, eye-catching colors with active strokes that provide a sense of motion. Not exactly Go Car, Go, but, nonetheless, a blithe and youthful lap read. (Picture book. 2-4) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
PreS. "Red light, stop. Green light, go. Cars and trucks drive to and fro." Once again, Suen offers a winning picture book that uses minimal, rhyming language to convey the rhythms of speed and motion. Wilson-Max adds a story in his bold, jellybean-colored acrylic paintings that show a boy playing with an elaborate model highway system, the tracks propped on books, the lanes demarcated with pencils, helicopters and vehicles moving through town. In a few scenes, shown right at street level, it's easy to forget that the lines of urban traffic are only make-believe. As in Peter Sis' Fire Truck0 (1998) and Dinosaur0 (2000), this bright, action-filled book beautifully captures the fluid borders between the real and imagined in children's play. --Gillian Engberg Copyright 2005 Booklist