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Trucksgiving - (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) by Jon Scieszka (Hardcover)

Trucksgiving - (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) by  Jon Scieszka (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Characters and environments developed by the Design Garage; David Shannon, Loren Long, David Gordon."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Join in on the Thanksgiving traditions of Trucktown in this addition to the </b><b><i>New York Times</i> </b><b>bestselling Ready-to-Read series by Jon Scieszka. </b> <p/>After scooping dirt, spraying water, and mixing cement, the first trucks of Trucktown want to do something for all of the trucks that helped them build Trucktown. <p/>Combining the traditions of Thanksgiving with the well-known fun of Trucktown, they create the special ways for all trucks to celebrate Trucksgiving year after year! <p/>This level one Ready-to-Read book is the perfect read to teach new reader's about Thanksgiving through the excitement of Trucktown with easy sight words, a simple plot, and a familiar topic.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jon Scieszka<b> </b>is the creator of Trucktown, including the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling <i>Smash, Crash!</i>, and the author of <i>The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!</i>, the Time Warp Trio series, Caldecott Honor Book <i>The Stinky Cheese Man</i>, and many other books that inspire kids to want to read. He has worked as an elementary school teacher and is the founder of GuysRead.com, a literacy initiative for boys. <p/>David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including <i>Duck on a Bike</i>, the Caldecott Honor Book <i>No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate</i>, and <i>Good Boy Fergus</i>. He is also one of the collaborative illustrators in Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. David lives with his wife and his daughter in Los Angeles. <p/>Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama's <i>Of Thee I Sing</i>; the newest version of <i>The Little Engine that Could</i> by Watty Piper; Madonna's second picture book, <i>Mr. Peabody's Apples</i>; <i>Nightsong</i> by Ari Berk; Frank McCourt's <i>Angela and the Baby Jesus</i>; <i>Love</i> by Matt de la Peña; and <i>If I Was the Sunshine </i>by Julie Fogliano. He also wrote and illustrated the Otis series and was part of the Design Garage for Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series. Loren's work has appeared in <i>Time</i>, <i>Sports Illustrated</i>, <i>Forbes</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, and <i>The Atlantic</i>. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com. <p/>David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including <i>Toy Story</i>; <i>Monsters, Inc</i>.; <i>A Bug's Life</i>; <i>Cars</i>; BlueSky's <i>Robots</i>; and Nickelodeon's <i>Spongebob Squarepants</i>. He's also written and illustrated several picture books, among them <i>Hansel and Diesel</i>, <i>The Three Little Rigs</i>, <i>The Ugly Truckling, </i> and <i>Smitten</i>. He's one of the illustrators of Jon Scieszka's fifty-two-book, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.

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