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The Spooky Tire - (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) by Jon Scieszka (Paperback)

The Spooky Tire - (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) by  Jon Scieszka (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Illustration crew: Executive Producer: Keytoon in association with Animagic S.L., Creative Supervisor: Sergio Pablos, Drawings by: Juan Pablo Navas, Color by: Isabel Nadal, Color Assistant: Gabriela Lazbal, Art Director: Karen Paprocki."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Trucktown gets <i>spooky </i>just in time for Halloween. <p/>Rev your engines for another Ready-to-Roll in the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling program!</b> <p/>Melvin has a flat tire. When he rolls into a spooky graveyard, he finds just what he needs: a new golden one. But as soon as he puts it on, he hears a spooky voice calling after him, "Who took my golden tire?" Melvin speeds home and hides under his tarp. The ghost follows him. The spooky voice gets closer and closer...Who could it be?<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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