Toot Toot Zoom!
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A funny, fast, and noisy tale about finding friends where you least expect to is the perfect vehicle for reading aloud. Poor Pierre! He lives all alone at the foot of a mountain, and his heart, how it longs for a friend. Perhaps if he hops in his car – toot, toot, zoom! – he will find a friend on the other side of the mountain! On the road – SCREECH! – he meets Goat, who kindly offers to help. And that, says Pierre, is exactly the sort of thing his friend will do when he finds him! Up, up they zoom, collecting an amiable Sheep and Bear along the way. Will the car make it to the top? Will it get safely down? Will Pierre ever find a friend? Phyllis Root’s wry, cumulative story revs readers up with BIG sound words, while Matthew Cordell’s energetic illustrations and a fun, dynamic design keep them happily strapped in for the ride.
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I have published fifty books for children, including Lucia and the Light, Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble, and Big Momma Makes the World, which won a Horn Book Award for picture books. A recent picture book One North Star won a John Burroughs Riverby award for Nature Writing, a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award. I teach in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Matthew Cordell is author and illustrator of Wolf in the Snow, winner of the Caldecott Medal, Trouble Gum, Another Brother, hello! hello!, and Wish. He has illustrated the books of renowned authors including Philip Stead (Special Delivery), Rachel Vail (the Justin Case series), and Gail Carson Levine (Forgive Me, I Meant To Do It). He lives outside of Chicago with his wife, the novelist Julie Halpern, and their two children.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780763634520
- Publication Date
- April 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press (MA)
- Page Count
- 40
- Words Per Page
- 16
- Reading Age
- 3 - 7 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2008934781
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 246887433
- Est. Lexile® Level
- ~202L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~G
- ATOS® Book Level
- 1.8
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 130027
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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