Trucks Go by Steve Light

Vehicles, Go!

by Steve Light

The garbage truck goes, 'BRRRRRRRR SCREETCH BEEP-BEEP-BEEP CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH'The fire engine goes, 'WHEE-OOO WHEE-OOO WHEE-OOO'The cement truck goes, 'VERRRRP JIGGA JIGGA VRRRRUMMMMM'Seven popular vehicles grumble, roar, and crunch their way through this very simple, graphically appealing board book. Perfect for the young truck enthusiast.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime, Trucks, Transport, Roman

Board Book

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

Steve Light grew up in an enchanted place known as New Jersey. He went on to study Illustration at Pratt Institute, he also studied with Dave Passalacqua. Upon graduating he did some corporate illustrations for companies such as: AT&T, Sony Films, and the New York Times Book Review. Steve Light then went on to design buttons that were acquired by the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. He has since published several children’s books with various publishers. He has read and told stories all over including The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and The Milwaukee Museum of Art.

Steve loves to draw. He draws everyday whether it is drawing in his sketchbook or on fancy paper for an illustration. Steve loves fountain pens and collects these ancient artifacts in order to draw with them. He also loves making things. Steve usually makes things like sculptures and toys out of wood. Steve loves sharing his art and stories with children.

Reviews

[Sasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The thing with this book is that it's really quite a bit of work for you. Every page has, whatever, a tow truck or something, and then this onomatopoeic explosion of noises that you're expected to translate. Like, here's a page:



That's difficult! There's a lot going on there! There are like ten other pages, too! I've done work on this book, on my own time, like, cracking down, how am I going to pronounce "Burbaba"? I'm fucking amazing at it, don't get me wrong, if there's one thing I was born to do it's read this exact book to a toddler. I'm just saying this book demands commitment. It requires your A game. Don't think you can get by just, like, saying "Burbaba." That's not what a garbage truck does at all.

[ThatLeo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Orange, green. That! That! That!

[Mama Bearian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each 2-page spread of this book includes a popular truck (i.e. cement truck, fire truck, etc.) and a page of sounds for the reader to translate. I enjoyed the simply illustrated watercolor trucks, and chuckled as I tried to make the truck sounds.

This book would be best read aloud, and with enthusiasm.

[Alana · Rating 2 out of 5]

The airplane book is definitely the best of this series. In that one, the noises mostly make sense. Not so much for this one. It was rather hard to read because the "sounds" just didn't really seem to match anything, so they were hard to voice. Kiddo enjoyed having dad make the goofy sounds, but they definitely didn't equate to the images on the page.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Steve Light's vehicle board book series continues with trucks. Just when I think Light would be running out of unique ideas for this transportation series, in this title he includes everything from the common box truck to the live load horse trailer.

[Kelsey Nelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read some others of this series and this is not my favorite. Each truck has a conglomeration of noises, only a couple of which are actually specific to the truck. But the little ones enjoy the different noises, so 3 stars.

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kids who are really into trucks will like this. Adults who don't want to make sound effects that don't totally make sense (The tanker truck goes 'Vrrrimmmm'(?)) won't necessarily enjoy this as much.

[Eliot Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

All kinds of awesome trucks making awesome noise.

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of funny sounds and colorful pictures of trucks, this book was great fun to read to toddlers. One group that I read it to would happily repeat the noises after me.

[Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this book. It's beautiful and entertaining for both the adult reader and child. e.e. willingly sat for this one!

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect for babies

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do get tired of reading these over and over but the kids just love them.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

An onomatopoeic read-aloud board book that’s fun for title ones!

[MacK · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me: feel like we were straining for different truck sounds by the end.

Alex: I love the onomatopoeias!!! [papa taught me that word]

Owen: I love trucks!

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all love making the sounds together

[Cara Byrne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Colorful and filled with sounds like "CREAK," "CLANG CLANG," and "BEEP-BEEP-BEEP," this book engaged my vehicle-loving two-year-old.

[Kacey Lundgren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun simple book. Loved the artwork. My toddler wasn’t super into it, I think she was just a little too old- dang! I still found more book by this author at the library to try.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This board book presents different trucks accompanied by truck onomatopoeia.

The illustrations were done in watercolor.

The choices for the represented sounds are rather odd, but the artwork is really great, depicting stylized trucks loosely drawn against negative space.

[Cindi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Our library finally ordered this book and got it in. It's full of fun truck noises and is a current favorite.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is okay but I think my Babies and Tots storytime will like it.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was read at story time in Lewiston. All of the truck noises were very fun :)

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Isabella loved the truck noises that the author spells out for the parent to read. Fun, fun book!

[Kathryn Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Illustrations of different trucks with their sound. The words for the sounds are fun, but they don't represent the actual sound.

[Shauna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jasper's current favorite! A long, rectangular board book with one truck per page with the sounds the truck makes. Lots of fun to read with your toddlers!

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used for Baby Loves Things That Go baby storytime May 2009.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

My not-quite-three-month-old boy loves this book. He smiles and smiles when we read it to him. The pictures are bright, and the text is fun to read aloud.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's like book crack for toddler boys. I wish there was a way to update my feed for everytime I will end up having to read this book.

[Sylvester (Taking a break in 2023) · Rating 2 out of 5]

1* art
2* concept

[Gracie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Onomatopoeia used flawlessly!! This book was colorful and engaging for preschool.

[Stacie · Rating 2 out of 5]

We have read two other books and this one didn't seem to hit the mark for us. My two year old son liked the long unique shape of the book but the content inside less than the other books.