The Runaway No-Wheeler
What's This Book About
Trucks! Counting! Tire-eating aliens! This wonderful, rhyming, super-silly book has it ALL…including Bob Staake’s awesome artwork. THE RUNAWAY NO-WHEELER is a clever spin on a counting book and the perennial favorite, a book starring trucks. Tony is a sturdy, long-hauling 18-wheeler with a delivery to make, but many obstacles are in the way – from potholes to slime to rescue missions to aliens’ space rockets. In the style of counting classics like Dr. Seuss’ Ten Apples Up on Top – though in this case, subtractive counting – Tony finds himself losing wheel after wheel with each hurdle he encounters. Will he be able to make his delivery?
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Terrific rhymes and cadence, energetic illustrations, and a novel storyline make this a refreshingly delightful truck book.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Making books is one of my favorite things in the world, but not my ONLY favorite thing. I also love hanging out with my family and giant dog Theo, playing the guitar, running, and doing non book-related art projects. Music is always a part of my creative routing (unless I’m writing, then quiet is the key), and I have a growing list of podcasts keep things interesting when in the middle of a project.
Bob Staake has written and/or illustrated more than fifty books, including The Red Lemon, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year. His work has graced the cover of The New Yorker more than a dozen times, and his November 17, 2008, Barack Obama victory cover was named the Best Magazine Cover of the Year by Time magazine. He lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780593114209
- Publication Date
- November 17, 2020
- Publisher
- Viking Books For Young Readers
- Original Publication Date
- November 1, 2020
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 543
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 7 years
- Lexile® Level
- AD510L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~3.4
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