Fire Truck (Hardcover)
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN-10: 0688158781
ISBN-13: 9780688158781
Sku: 30373745
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.5H x 8.25L x 0.5T
Pages:
28
Age Range:
7 to 10
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Once there was a little boy named Matt who loved fire trucks. (from the first line)
| In a story by the illustrator of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. *Author: Sis, Peter *Publication Date: 1998/09/01 *Number of Pages: 24 *Binding Type: Hardcover *Grade Level: Preschool *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 8.25 *Height: 8.50 |
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Matt loves fire trucks, and one morning when he wakes up, he is a fire truck--right down to his hoses, hooks, and ladders! His wheels and sirens couldnt be handier for performing many important duties around the house, especially rescuing teetering teddy bears or precariously placed pets. And a gatefold spread of Matt's fully loaded rig will have happy young viewers counting from one to ten--over and over again--in this fun-filled ode to the classic red fire truck by Caldecott Honor-winning Peter Sis.In a story by the illustrator of |
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A boy who loves fire trucks awakens one morning to discover that he has turned into one himself. The boy/truck happily spends some time blaring his sirens, rescuing a trapped cat, putting out a fire, and saving a teddy bear, only becoming all boy again in order to enjoy a delicious pancake breakfast. Illustrated with gouache paintings.
A boy who loves fire trucks awakens one morning to discover that he has turned into one himself. The boy/truck happily spends some time blaring his sirens, rescuing a trapped cat, putting out a fire, and saving a teddy bear, only becoming all boy again in order to enjoy a delicious pancake breakfast. Illustrated with gouache paintings.
Author Bio
Peter Sis
Raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, author and illustrator Peter Sis attended that city's Academy of Fine Arts from which he received both a B.A. and an M.A. He also attended the Royal College of Art in London. In addition to writing and illustrating his own books for children, Sis has also illustrated works by such other authors as Kate Banks, Sid Fleischman, and George Shannon. The illustrations for his 1997 picture-book biography of Galileo, STARRY MESSENGER, earned that book a Caldecott Honor Award. Peter Sis immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1988. His critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic picture book, THE WALL, was a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book.
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