Picture book · Fiction
Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle; illustrated by Jill McElmurry
About the book
A friendly little blue truck greets the farm animals with a "beep"; when he gets stuck in the mud trying to help a pushy dump truck, his animal friends come to push them both free.
Reading notes
Rhyming text and animal sounds make it a toddler and preschool read-aloud favorite.
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Book details
- Author
- Alice Schertle
- Illustrator
- Jill McElmurry
- First published
- 2008
- Suggested ages
- Ages 1–5 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- vehicles, kindness, animals
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780544056855 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
Metadata verified against Open Library on 2026-11-11. Other editions and formats exist; ISBNs differ by edition.
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