Author: Patricia Hubbell
Illustrator: Megan Halsey and Sean Addy
Age Range: 3-8
Genre: Picture book, rhyming
There has been a lot of research done in regards to the benefits of reading aloud rhymes to your child. Rhymes help children gain some basic building blocks to become readers. But more than that, children love rhymes. I think rhymes help ME to read the story with more fun and more inflection and I can see that the rhythm and rhyme engage my son an additional level besides just the story line itself.
I picked this book up on a whim and upon opening it, knew immediately that my son would love it. The pictures are really unique, sort of retro but also modern at the same time. The illustrators mix up who is driving all of the cars - sometimes animals, sometimes humans but it makes for a really wonderful thing to look at. My son can't get enough of it and I've been reading/rapping the book to him every night for the past six days. He loves the pictures, and the last line of the book is "they go to rest" and I always whisper it, since it is a picture of a cars "sleeping" in their garages. My son, now also whispers it and it is so fun to see.
This book simply details in rhyme, types of cars, what they do, where they go, why they are useful and is just a really fun book both to the eyes and to the ears.
Hardcover
Paperback
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