vehicles – Cannonball Read 17

Boingy boingy goes the car and the jacket and the money and the shovel and the….

Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty

April 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA is not “ha ha” funny, but there is a tone of humor to the storytelling of Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley’s book. Maybe it is because I like a good yarn, a good road trip and have an odd sense of humor. But regardless of my thoughts of humor, this is one of my favorite books I read this month (and due to a recent vacation, I had a lot of books read). […]

Beep! Truck time!

The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey

January 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had heard of The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey, but never saw a copy. That is until I accidentally came across it as an online reader copy. The version I found was for the board board edition. I was only about half way through when I knew that I must find finished copies (thankfully currently available) and send them to all my adopted great-nieces/nephews and save a copy for the future official great-niece (who is due May 2024). And as soon […]

The next car I name is going to be Priscilla Queen of the Desert

A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers

July 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr15bingo Bodies, Bodies: The car has bodies in it & the cars body holds them. Growing up my parents probably named more than a vehicle or two. We never had anything as solid as Bob (named by our young narrator) but I remember a few such as The Banana Boat (it was a 1972 light yellow Dodge Monaco) and The Roadrunner (it had roadrunner mud flaps), but we knew a good vehicle needed the love that the family shows their car in the picture book […]

And to all a Good night…

November 8, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Construction Site on Christmas Night by Sherri Duskey Rinker is like the other books in the series of construction vehicle friends. This makes it a nice addition to your collection of construction books created by Rinker and A.G. Ford. Or if you are not familiar with the series, it is also for fans of construction vehicles. It is also centered around the theme of the Christmas spirit of giving: the construction team works hard to give a special gift at the end of the book […]

And We’re off to Bed

May 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car says Kate Dopirak and Mary Peterson. And our little car is off beeping goodnight to all his friends. And by the end, pulls in back at home, sleepy and ready to go to bed himself. The end. Sadly, there is not a lot of text to this book for the toddler crowd. The text loses traction for many reasons. The least being the short amount of text. The main one is the story has been done before. However, if you are […]

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