Your Truck: (A Board Book with Minimalist Illustrations That Explores Ownership, Imagination, and Perspective) by Klassen, Jon

"[A] standout board book series starter. . . .Minimalism motors toward an expansive experience in this smart work that puts youngest readers in the driver's seat." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen comes the first board book in the Your Things series for the youngest of children.

This is your truck.
It is yours to have.

Your truck is red, but it could be other colors too. It can carry things around, like a chair and table, a dog, or a horse. It will wait for you until you tell it to go, then it will go wherever you want, as far as you want, whenever you want. At the end of the day it will sleep, and you can sleep, too. Jon Klassen brings his minimalist's touch to a soothing story of a simple object that a child can command and befriend, one that is there whenever the child chooses to visit it. Building on the quiet but evocative world he created in Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island, Jon Klassen invites young children to consider more things that are theirs and theirs alone, reinforcing that they have a right to things like solitude, exploration, and companionship.

Author: Jon Klassen
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 01/06/2026
Pages: 28
Binding Type: Board Book
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 5.10h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781536248227
Audience: Ages 4-8

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2025
School Library Journal 11/01/2025 pg. 91
Booklist 11/01/2025
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2026 pg. 61

About the Author
Jon Klassen is the creator of the Your Places board book series, including Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island. He is the author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times best-selling I Want My Hat Back, which won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, and its companions This Is Not My Hat, which won a Caldecott Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, and We Found a Hat, named a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year. He is also the creator of The Rock from the Sky and The Skull, and the illustrator of Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Triangle, Square, and Circle, all by Mac Barnett. Originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jon Klassen now lives in Los Angeles.