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Trucks

Young readers in the primary grades will enjoy seeing 12″ X 9″ color photos of  big work trucks. Two or three sentences of  large font text on the left are opposite the action photo on the right side of each page spread. The book is divided into three sections: Trucks, Parts of Trucks, and Different Kinds of Trucks.  There is a photo with the cab portion of the semi-truck labeled. The different kinds of trucks include: tow truck, fire, semi-trailer, garbage, flatbed, logging, and monster. This is followed by More Facts, Glossary, Index, and Abdo Kids Code. It is interesting to find that the on-line Abdo Kids Code portion contains 5 of the 9 photos from the book, and the text condensed and paraphrased down from 16 sentences to 4. There are, also, 3 printable activities[ the ‘craft’ is mistakenly a ‘floating boat’], a 1:43 minute video consists of a song counting 20 different types of trucks, and 3 “Learn More” .