Smash! Crash! by Scieszka, Jon

Welcome to Jon Scieszka's Trucktown, a brand-new preschool/kindergarten series that will come in more shapes, sizes, and formats than you can shake a bumper at. It's a world where all the characters are trucks, all the stories are action driven, and boys and girls can imagine themselves in all their crazy, loud, funny, creative, excited, full-throttle glory It's a world where we work at play, and we play at work...and no one's afraid to get dirty or be LOUD And it all kicks off with Smash Crash Best friends Jack and Dan are spending their day doing what they do best - smashing and crashing All the while a strange shadow is following them around every corner...Who is this new addition to Trucktown? What does she want? Rhythmic, rollicking text will get kids' motors running and horns honking with each refrain This is a book that begs to be read again and again

Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/08/2008
Pages: 42
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 10.26h x 10.20w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781416941330
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 120870 / Smash! Crash!/Welcome to Trucktown!

Award: NAPPA Gold Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/2007 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 11/26/2007 pg. 51
Kirkus Review - Children 12/15/2007 pg. 1300
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2008 pg. 305
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2008 pg. 14
School Library Journal 01/01/2008 pg. 97
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 286 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2008 pg. 33

About the Author
Jon Scieszka is the creator of Trucktown, including the New York Times bestselling Smash, Crash!, and the author of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, the Time Warp Trio series, Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man, 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.

David Shannon has written and illustrated numerous award winning picture books including Duck on a Bike, the Caldecott Honor Book No David!, How I Learned to be a Pirate, and Good Boy Fergus. 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.

Loren Long illustrated President Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing; the newest version of The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper; Madonna's second picture book, Mr. Peabody's Apples; Nightsong by Ari Berk; Frank McCourt's Angela and the Baby Jesus; Love by Matt de la Peña; and If I Was the Sunshine 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 Time, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit him at LorenLong.com.

David Gordon has done visual development for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including Toy Story; Monsters, Inc.; A Bug's Life; Cars; BlueSky's Robots; and Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants. He's also written and illustrated several picture books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs, The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. He's one of the illustrators of Jon Scieszka's fifty-two-book, New York Times bestselling series, Trucktown. Visit him at IllustratorRanch.com.