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The Old Truck
A young girl turns her imagination into action in this beautifully crafted and intricately designed debut picture book. When is an old truck something more? On a small, bustling farm, a resilient and steadfast pickup works tirelessly alongside the family that lives there, and becomes a part of the dreams and ambitions of the family’s young daughter. After long days and years of hard work leave the old truck rusting in the weeds, it’s time for the girl to roll up her sleeves. Soon she is running her own busy farm, and in the midst of all the repairing and restoring, it may be time to bring her faithful childhood companion back to life. With an eye-catching retro design and cleverly nuanced illustrations, The Old Truck celebrates the rewards of determination and the value of imagination.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 7, 2020
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January 21, 2020
As a girl who grew up adoring her dad and “helping” him work on cars, who was taught to appreciate old cars and trucks by her parents, who was toted around to various car shows for family vacations, who lives out in the country where I see this story play out all too often, and finally, as a girl grown into a nostalgic woman, this book really made me say, “Oh, my heart.” ❤️ Lovely.
February 5, 2020
Pre-read Squee:
The author of Truck: A Love Story, my favorite, Michael Perry, would appreciate this. His daughters are past picture-book age, but his oldest is, iiuc, so much like the character in this book that she'd love it anyway. And maybe grandkids are on the way. I'll have to recommend it to him, if it doesn't disappoint me.
Guess what! Two of the libraries picked it up on their own initiative, and my local one already has it ready for me after I requested it!!
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Done! My only complaint? Too short! Absolutely lovely, and enjoyable, and important. Black girls can be farmers! And mechanics! Just look at the charming pictures, over and over again, to see for yourself! Ok, sorry for so many exclamation points, but seriously, this is a book that should be in every public library in North America and many classrooms, too.
Btw, as most of you know, I have no connection with the publishing industry, no reason to promote books I don't love, no membership in ARC programs, no social media except this, goodreads. You can take my word for it - this is a book to love, a book worthy of the buzz.
The author of Truck: A Love Story, my favorite, Michael Perry, would appreciate this. His daughters are past picture-book age, but his oldest is, iiuc, so much like the character in this book that she'd love it anyway. And maybe grandkids are on the way. I'll have to recommend it to him, if it doesn't disappoint me.
Guess what! Two of the libraries picked it up on their own initiative, and my local one already has it ready for me after I requested it!!
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Done! My only complaint? Too short! Absolutely lovely, and enjoyable, and important. Black girls can be farmers! And mechanics! Just look at the charming pictures, over and over again, to see for yourself! Ok, sorry for so many exclamation points, but seriously, this is a book that should be in every public library in North America and many classrooms, too.
Btw, as most of you know, I have no connection with the publishing industry, no reason to promote books I don't love, no membership in ARC programs, no social media except this, goodreads. You can take my word for it - this is a book to love, a book worthy of the buzz.
June 30, 2020
This book is so cute! I love the story and the illustrations. I had heard about the author and illustrator on NPR one day, and just thought the book sounded so good. It's about how a little black girl grows up to farm her family's land.
September 25, 2022
3.5 to 4 stars. Update your farm and agriculture related books or add this to your titles about persistence.
February 18, 2020
The life of an old truck as seen through multiple generations of farmers. Illustrations created by making stamps. Very cool!
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February 12, 2021
There have been some beautiful picturebooks to come out of 2020 & I feel lucky to have read them. One special picturebook which I adore on so many levels is the brothers Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey’s The Old Truck. I thought I'd walk through the book and share why I think it’s so special...(see my continued review over on my blog)
January 13, 2021
It would be hard to lead a socially distanced read aloud with this one. I would want all the readers huddled really close to me so we could study the pictures together!
February 13, 2020
Vaguely interesting intellectually, especially for busting stereotypes all over the place, but it just never came alive for me. Anyone familiar with my reviews will not be surprised to hear I was not a fan of the pointless dream sequence in the middle, especially since it was
February 21, 2020
This should be on a bunch of award lists this year. A sweet coming of age story about a girl and her truck. Imaginative, simple, poignant. The stamped illustrations are masterful, with a colorful muted palette and a confident sense of structure and pattern. Highly recommended for ages 3-6.
June 17, 2021
The easy reader text and the simple, direct illustration does nothing to simplify the impact of this perfect picture book.
February 11, 2020
My son-in-law owns an 'old truck' and loves this book, can tell a few stories about those old trucks in his past. Endpapers tell that Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey created over 250 stamps to create these special illustrations. In it, they celebrate old trucks in their lives and those seen in Texas pastures in this story of a family with one girl who work hard on their farm. And so does their truck. Brief text and lovely illustrations show time passing as the girl grows up and slowly takes apart and puts that old truck encircled by flowers back together. The tale starts again with the truck, working hard.
February 15, 2021
In subdued, pastel colors we witness the fact that an old truck has a long memory. It works hard, it eventually put to rest, but is revived years later. Nevertheless, the story is less about the truck and more about the family that loves it — how they change and grow. And how the farm is passed down from father to daughter. Such a beautiful “feel good” story that can be enjoyed again and again.
For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!!
For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!!
March 21, 2020
The very simple text is almost completely carried along with the stunning illustrations, that have a retro, but unique look. It was nice to see that a talented woman mechanic got the truck running again.
January 11, 2021
টুকরো ছাপচিত্রে আঁকা সরল, সুন্দর একটা গল্প। পমফ্রে ভাইদের কৃষ্ণাঙ্গিনী পূর্বনারীরা মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের দক্ষিণভাগে কঠোর সংগ্রাম করে তিলে তিলে সন্ততির জন্যে সাচ্ছল্যের বন্দোবস্ত করে গেছেন, এ গল্পে তার খানিক আভাস উঠে এসেছে। ছবিগুলো হয়তো হাতেই আঁকা যেতো, কিন্তু অধ্যবসায় আর সহিষ্ণুতার গল্প বলার প্রক্রিয়াতে তার ছাপ থাকা জরুরি বলে আড়াইশো পৃথক মুদ্রিকা দিয়ে ছবিগুলো আঁকা। পরীক্ষায় উৎরানোর জন্যে কৈশোরে অধ্যবসায় শিরোনামে প্রবন্ধ লিখতে গিয়ে ঘুরেফিরে রবার্ট ব্রুস কী হাতিঘোড়া মেরেছেন, সেগুলো মুখস্থ করে উগরে এসেছি; এমন একটা বই আর সে বই লেখা-আঁকার পেছনে লিখিয়ে-আঁকিয়ের চিন্তা যদি তখন সামনে থাকতো, হয়তো প্রতিদিন আমাদের মা-নানি-দাদিদের নীরব grit-এর গল্প অন্যের মুখে শুনে আরেকটু ভালো মানুষ হয়ে বেড়ে উঠতাম।
January 26, 2021
The Old Truck is a beautiful story looking at growing up and making the most of family, growing old and new life! The author focuses on using the pictures to portray the story to the reader, and uses very little words, which to me made the story more moving to me. I would highly recommend this story to a KS1 class, and would be great for cross-curricular use!
February 6, 2020
Richie’s Picks: THE OLD TRUCK by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey, Norton, January 2020, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-324-00519-3
“And I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that’s why I love you”
-- Cyndi Lauper (1986)
There are lots of books for children about a girl and her horse, or a girl and her dog, or a girl and her best human friend. But there are not a lot of kids books about a girl and her pickup truck.
This unique, exquisite picture book about tradition and renewal is a keeper.
The blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast has a fascinating interview with the Pumphrey brothers in which they detail their creation of THE OLD TRUCK. http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethin... Don’t miss it! It includes photographs of the process in which they crafted hundreds of stamps which were used to create the illustrations.
“The old truck grew weary and tired,
So the old truck rested.
and dreamed.
The old truck sailed the seas,
braved the skies,
and chased the stars.
But the old truck grew older.
It’s in the little girl’s dreams where the pickup truck is accomplishing the most amazing feats. The story, which takes place on a small family farm, begins when the main character is but knee-high to a grasshopper. Soon, she is growing big enough to be doing a kid’s share of work around the farm. We watch her transition from repairing her bicycle to doing basic maintenance on the tractor and, we suddenly realize, she has matured into a young woman.
This, as the old pickup, now permanently parked alongside the barn, has gotten deeper and further lost in the weeds...and the snow.
“On a small farm, a new farmer worked hard.”
Then the family farm enters a new chapter. That now-grown-up girl has become the farmer. No parents in sight. We see her hook up the tractor to her old friend, and then pull it out of the weeds. She then set outs to give her old pickup a new life.
“VROOOOOOOM!!”
My favorite spread involves the main character starting the engine after successfully rebirthing the truck, which causes all of the chickens in the farmyard to go into hysterics. The tale ends with the main character carrying baskets of just-picked produce to the reborn truck, where her own smiling daughter is sitting on the tailgate, waiting.
I make a point of employing a female-owned and operated repair shop to maintain my Prius, so I’m excited to have this picture book showing a woman rebuilding a truck engine. And it’s always great to see a book depicting renewal and reuse rather than discarding and purchasing new. Every time something is reused, it means that the effect on the environment of mining and processing raw materials to manufacture a new one of them is avoided. And that’s a really big deal.
THE OLD TRUCK is an enlightened, memorable, and incredibly sweet story.
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
richiepartington@gmail.com
“And I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that’s why I love you”
-- Cyndi Lauper (1986)
There are lots of books for children about a girl and her horse, or a girl and her dog, or a girl and her best human friend. But there are not a lot of kids books about a girl and her pickup truck.
This unique, exquisite picture book about tradition and renewal is a keeper.
The blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast has a fascinating interview with the Pumphrey brothers in which they detail their creation of THE OLD TRUCK. http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethin... Don’t miss it! It includes photographs of the process in which they crafted hundreds of stamps which were used to create the illustrations.
“The old truck grew weary and tired,
So the old truck rested.
and dreamed.
The old truck sailed the seas,
braved the skies,
and chased the stars.
But the old truck grew older.
It’s in the little girl’s dreams where the pickup truck is accomplishing the most amazing feats. The story, which takes place on a small family farm, begins when the main character is but knee-high to a grasshopper. Soon, she is growing big enough to be doing a kid’s share of work around the farm. We watch her transition from repairing her bicycle to doing basic maintenance on the tractor and, we suddenly realize, she has matured into a young woman.
This, as the old pickup, now permanently parked alongside the barn, has gotten deeper and further lost in the weeds...and the snow.
“On a small farm, a new farmer worked hard.”
Then the family farm enters a new chapter. That now-grown-up girl has become the farmer. No parents in sight. We see her hook up the tractor to her old friend, and then pull it out of the weeds. She then set outs to give her old pickup a new life.
“VROOOOOOOM!!”
My favorite spread involves the main character starting the engine after successfully rebirthing the truck, which causes all of the chickens in the farmyard to go into hysterics. The tale ends with the main character carrying baskets of just-picked produce to the reborn truck, where her own smiling daughter is sitting on the tailgate, waiting.
I make a point of employing a female-owned and operated repair shop to maintain my Prius, so I’m excited to have this picture book showing a woman rebuilding a truck engine. And it’s always great to see a book depicting renewal and reuse rather than discarding and purchasing new. Every time something is reused, it means that the effect on the environment of mining and processing raw materials to manufacture a new one of them is avoided. And that’s a really big deal.
THE OLD TRUCK is an enlightened, memorable, and incredibly sweet story.
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
richiepartington@gmail.com
November 21, 2019
Thank you to @nortonyoungreaders for a review copy. All opinions are my own.
I love this book for so many reasons. As far as picture books go, the illustrations are beautiful and the spare text is perfect for young readers. Also, The Old Truck at first glance looks like it is about a farm truck that was used, and then was included in a little girl's imaginative adventures, left in the field to rust, and eventually restored by the farmer whose parents owned it when she was a little girl. But #1--did you catch that SHE is the farmer? And #2--she is a woman of color who grew up in a farming family. I am a librarian and have read a lot of books about farmers. I can think of many books about white male farmers, or chickens or pigs or ducks or sheep, but very few about female farmers and even fewer about farmers of color. I would purchase for the art and the sweet story alone, but representation matters, and the characters make it an even more important selection for my library.
I love this book for so many reasons. As far as picture books go, the illustrations are beautiful and the spare text is perfect for young readers. Also, The Old Truck at first glance looks like it is about a farm truck that was used, and then was included in a little girl's imaginative adventures, left in the field to rust, and eventually restored by the farmer whose parents owned it when she was a little girl. But #1--did you catch that SHE is the farmer? And #2--she is a woman of color who grew up in a farming family. I am a librarian and have read a lot of books about farmers. I can think of many books about white male farmers, or chickens or pigs or ducks or sheep, but very few about female farmers and even fewer about farmers of color. I would purchase for the art and the sweet story alone, but representation matters, and the characters make it an even more important selection for my library.
November 30, 2019
Well, shit. This made me cry. It's a simple story about the passage of time, the inevitability of change. I thought I knew where it was going, and yet its charms and poignancy crept up on me. It's sort of like The Giving Tree, but featuring a loving and loyal relationship between a child (who becomes, of course, an adult) and an object, rather than the one-sided and sort of sad relationship depicted in the Shel Silverstein classic.
The illustrations here are also simple (limited color palette, painted stamps of mostly big shapes), but in the best way--allowing the story to breathe, the reader to take pause, the pages to turn slowly like the years in the lifetime of a family.
I'm calling it now that this will remain one of my favorite 2020 picture books.
The illustrations here are also simple (limited color palette, painted stamps of mostly big shapes), but in the best way--allowing the story to breathe, the reader to take pause, the pages to turn slowly like the years in the lifetime of a family.
I'm calling it now that this will remain one of my favorite 2020 picture books.
October 16, 2020
This was a completely charming and simple picture book which would be perfect for a beginning reader. Each page has a few words, with some repetition, as we see the old farm truck get older and the little girl grow into a woman (a woman who is quite handy and decides to get that old truck spiffed up). I found the story to be really heart-warming and full of hope.
The art is charming as well. Apparently the Pumphrey brothers made over 250 stamps to create this art. I did wish the colors were brighter. I think they were going for a 50s retro feel, when the printing process maybe couldn't reproduce the bright colors we can have today.
You can see pictures of some of their stamps here in this interview:
https://bookpeopleblog.com/2019/09/13...
The art is charming as well. Apparently the Pumphrey brothers made over 250 stamps to create this art. I did wish the colors were brighter. I think they were going for a 50s retro feel, when the printing process maybe couldn't reproduce the bright colors we can have today.
You can see pictures of some of their stamps here in this interview:
https://bookpeopleblog.com/2019/09/13...
February 28, 2023
An old truck on a farm serves as a boat, an airplane, a spaceship for a young girl and then is reconditioned to serve as a truck again once the girl comes to maturity.
A lovely little story of meaning and purpose and strong women and recycling and the power of the imagination. I love the stamped artwork, too.
A lovely little story of meaning and purpose and strong women and recycling and the power of the imagination. I love the stamped artwork, too.
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June 15, 2020A lovely circular story, written in exquisitely simple text and graphic, stamped illustrations—it feels at once both modern and classic.
July 30, 2020
Short and simple, yet meaningful and impactful. The Old Truck follows the life of a young girl living on a farm with her family and the reliable old truck that helps them with so many daily chores around the farm. It progresses beautifully in that when the girl gets older she helps restore the truck, who has become even older still, in order to start the cycle back over again. Full of heart and wonder, this book would be perfect for a farm-life, “things that go,” or women in power storytime session for preschool-aged children.
January 18, 2020
Lots of things to love about this children's picture book. The illustrations are a gentle throwback to a simpler time. The little girl depicted grows into a mechanically inclined woman who eventually fixes her father's beloved old truck, which has fallen into disrepair; she also inherits the family farm. The multigenerational aspect of the story is especially appealing, in which, as a mom, the same farm routines are played out in her life at the end of the book that we see in the beginning with her parents, when she was a small child. This is a lovely celebration of family and the hard work that farmers do every day. As a librarian, I also appreciate that the family is African-American, because representation is so important - not just in the vibrant cities of, for example, a New York illustrator like Ezra Jack Keats, but also in the rural communities that the author/illustrator team of brothers, Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey, grew up in as Texans. It's wonderful when my youngest customers can see themselves reflected in the cover art and illustrations of a meaningful picture book.
February 15, 2020
Read it. An old farm truck grows older as a young girl grows up. Lovely stamped illustrations in a simple color palette. History repeats itself.
July 3, 2024
The illustrations would be fun to look at with a toddler. They provide a great jumping off point for kids to make up a story of their own
October 21, 2020
The Old Truck follows a life and a legacy of a truck and a farm and a family. In the first illustration we see a pregnant woman gathering flowers and a man carrying a plank of wood toward a mid-constructed barn. The crop in the pasture still young; the sun somewhere still early in the sky. We begin to learn how to mark the passage of time: the earth, the sky, the farmers’ daughter… But while the farm is new, the truck is an old one, and the truck is our first subject: “On a small farm, an old truck worked hard.”
I love the turn in the story, and the page where the ‘resting’ truck “dreamed.” The image is the interior of the daughter’s bedroom, herself tucked beneath white covers; through the window, the old truck lay beneath blankets of snow. And then we get to see what the old truck dreams: of sailing the sea—it’s body now a boat; ‘braving the skies’—it’s frame carried by a dirigible flying past mountains; ‘chasing the stars’—the truck now a rover on a planet. As in scenes on the farm, the daughter is present in each of the adventures; exploring alongside each iteration of the old truck. Including the daughter in the dream sequence does not come from nowhere and you wonder if they are adventures each character dreams. The girl’s room has a mobile of planets, a fishbowl, a globe on the book shelves—all of which easily noticed in the relatively spare nature of Pumphrey’s illustrations.
As the truck grows older, its role changes—as does the daughter’s. She graduates from bike maintenance to tractor maintenance to rebuilding the truck. And we move from an old truck as the subject to a new farmer (the daughter grown) in a smooth transition of seasons. In that textless winter scene, I can’t help but think of the “dreaming” sequence introduced by the blanketing of snow. But instead of the girl and truck on the following pages having an adventure away from the farm, in a different form of employment/lifestyle, they both remained to experience a life here on the farm.
The quantity of text is small. And it will find repetition with the shift in attention to a new character. As a device, the return emphasizes in the continuous, cyclical nature of a life. It also gives us the lyrical and anticipatory quality we like in a good picture book. In the second visual sequence of the text, the new farmer is contributing in her way to the new life of her farm: by the effort and patience in rebuilding the rusty old truck.
I adore the chickens’ fright at the robust “VROOOOOOOOM!!” as the truck is revived. That smile on the woman’s face.
And now we begin the story anew: “On a small farm, an old truck…” The new farmer has her own daughter, the house has a new coat of paint, as does the body of the truck. Some actions will look familiar though.
The Pumphrey brothers are incredibly skillful in layering the old and the new, giving their story both a sensation of timelessness and the passage of time. The palette and style of illustration contributing strongly to this quality. The images and narrative have a marvelous appeal; are both meditative and entertaining.
I highly recommend The Old Truck. Easily one of my favorite picture books this year, it is an absolute must. I’m really looking forward to their next picture book The Old Boat (Norton, March 2021)
Because these elements do not go without note/appreciation: The Pumphreys are Black creators giving us a story of a Black family. The farm’s legacy is left to daughters—girls/women observed in activities involving sea, air, and space exploration; mechanics; driving a tractor; rebuilding a truck by herself having “dreamed” and “persisted.” A man or woman partner could be imagined in the last scene offered, but as it is, the new farmer is the sole adult in frame, carrying a basket of produce to a young girl perched on the back of the old truck—a never-gendered truck.
I love the turn in the story, and the page where the ‘resting’ truck “dreamed.” The image is the interior of the daughter’s bedroom, herself tucked beneath white covers; through the window, the old truck lay beneath blankets of snow. And then we get to see what the old truck dreams: of sailing the sea—it’s body now a boat; ‘braving the skies’—it’s frame carried by a dirigible flying past mountains; ‘chasing the stars’—the truck now a rover on a planet. As in scenes on the farm, the daughter is present in each of the adventures; exploring alongside each iteration of the old truck. Including the daughter in the dream sequence does not come from nowhere and you wonder if they are adventures each character dreams. The girl’s room has a mobile of planets, a fishbowl, a globe on the book shelves—all of which easily noticed in the relatively spare nature of Pumphrey’s illustrations.
As the truck grows older, its role changes—as does the daughter’s. She graduates from bike maintenance to tractor maintenance to rebuilding the truck. And we move from an old truck as the subject to a new farmer (the daughter grown) in a smooth transition of seasons. In that textless winter scene, I can’t help but think of the “dreaming” sequence introduced by the blanketing of snow. But instead of the girl and truck on the following pages having an adventure away from the farm, in a different form of employment/lifestyle, they both remained to experience a life here on the farm.
The quantity of text is small. And it will find repetition with the shift in attention to a new character. As a device, the return emphasizes in the continuous, cyclical nature of a life. It also gives us the lyrical and anticipatory quality we like in a good picture book. In the second visual sequence of the text, the new farmer is contributing in her way to the new life of her farm: by the effort and patience in rebuilding the rusty old truck.
I adore the chickens’ fright at the robust “VROOOOOOOOM!!” as the truck is revived. That smile on the woman’s face.
And now we begin the story anew: “On a small farm, an old truck…” The new farmer has her own daughter, the house has a new coat of paint, as does the body of the truck. Some actions will look familiar though.
The Pumphrey brothers are incredibly skillful in layering the old and the new, giving their story both a sensation of timelessness and the passage of time. The palette and style of illustration contributing strongly to this quality. The images and narrative have a marvelous appeal; are both meditative and entertaining.
I highly recommend The Old Truck. Easily one of my favorite picture books this year, it is an absolute must. I’m really looking forward to their next picture book The Old Boat (Norton, March 2021)
Because these elements do not go without note/appreciation: The Pumphreys are Black creators giving us a story of a Black family. The farm’s legacy is left to daughters—girls/women observed in activities involving sea, air, and space exploration; mechanics; driving a tractor; rebuilding a truck by herself having “dreamed” and “persisted.” A man or woman partner could be imagined in the last scene offered, but as it is, the new farmer is the sole adult in frame, carrying a basket of produce to a young girl perched on the back of the old truck—a never-gendered truck.
January 23, 2020
I loved the messages of this book—of strong women, gender roles, rural life, persistence... great book!
January 6, 2020
Very cute.
September 30, 2020
This picture book is about a farm family and generational farming and Black farming and about a trusty piece of equipment; the last element (important enough to be the title element) puts the book in a cherished but previously non-diverse collection with Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Otis. Which is good enough company, heaven knows, but this is also a book that shows all children that Black people farm. That is enough to recommend it for every library and add it to the storytime canon. A beautiful and important picture book. And, the co-creators are brothers. Awesome!
All the characters grinning hugely on every page is a bit much - farming is hard - but that is a quibble. Add this to your collection and share it frequently.
All the characters grinning hugely on every page is a bit much - farming is hard - but that is a quibble. Add this to your collection and share it frequently.
January 24, 2020
The gentle, muted illustrations in this story took me back to my childhood. It was a time when I lived in a small Indiana town surrounded by old farms. These were farms passed down through multiple generations; usually a bit worn with multiple buildings surrounding an old farmhouse and very often old trucks scattered around on the property. We would pass by these farms as we made the trek to visit both sets of grandparents on almost a weekly basis. I sat in the front seat because I was always hopelessly carsick, which gave me the perfect view of the countryside and gave me the opportunity to daydream about the scenery we passed. I had questions flying through my mind. Who lived there? How long had the farm been there? Did children live on the farm? What crops did they grow?
The authors of this story must have had similar experiences, because this lovely story strives to answer some of these questions. It follows a farming family through the years, working hard and always using an old red truck to help them achieve their dreams. And there’s always a little girl there to help and to love the old red truck. That is until the red truck doesn’t run anymore. That’s the time it’s parked in the barnyard and forgotten about by almost everyone, except the little girl. Time passed and they both dreamed and rested and grew older, until a new farmer came a long. It’s a new farmer who looks amazingly like the little girl from long ago; it’s a little girl who grew up, became a farmer and rescued the old red truck to help her achieve HER dreams.
Thank you, @jpumphrey and @wjpumphrey for taking me back to my childhood and bringing some of my daydreams to life. Your charming book felt like a warm blanket and is one I want to read over and over. It’s going to be one of my “coffee table” books (high praise!). Those are the special ones I leave out so anyone and everyone who visits will have the opportunity to be wrapped up in that warm blanket, just as I was. I highly recommend that you add this to your TBR pile very soon! And a special thank you to @jarrettlerner for his post that compelled me to add it to my library requests!
The authors of this story must have had similar experiences, because this lovely story strives to answer some of these questions. It follows a farming family through the years, working hard and always using an old red truck to help them achieve their dreams. And there’s always a little girl there to help and to love the old red truck. That is until the red truck doesn’t run anymore. That’s the time it’s parked in the barnyard and forgotten about by almost everyone, except the little girl. Time passed and they both dreamed and rested and grew older, until a new farmer came a long. It’s a new farmer who looks amazingly like the little girl from long ago; it’s a little girl who grew up, became a farmer and rescued the old red truck to help her achieve HER dreams.
Thank you, @jpumphrey and @wjpumphrey for taking me back to my childhood and bringing some of my daydreams to life. Your charming book felt like a warm blanket and is one I want to read over and over. It’s going to be one of my “coffee table” books (high praise!). Those are the special ones I leave out so anyone and everyone who visits will have the opportunity to be wrapped up in that warm blanket, just as I was. I highly recommend that you add this to your TBR pile very soon! And a special thank you to @jarrettlerner for his post that compelled me to add it to my library requests!
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