From luxury limousines to speedy sports cars, a wide variety of automobiles are featured -- all driven by kooky animal characters. Lively rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton perfectly complements Ant Parker's bold, bright illustrations. A picture dictionary identifying car parts builds vocabulary and makes learning about cars even more fun.

PreS-K. From the Amazing Machines series, this picture book features a rhyming, rhythmic text and pictures of many different kinds of autos: family cars, convertibles, police cars, race cars, and taxis. Dressed animals drive their colorful cars (no silver, black, or beige here) through the streets of a cozy city, stopping to fill their tanks with gasoline and go through the carwash. On the last page, a cutaway drawing points out six parts of a car, from engine to trunk. Washed with clear, bright colors, the simple ink drawings define a friendly world that children may want to revisit long after their parents have tired of the rather pedestrian verse. With a particularly appealing jacket, this picture book will find a willing audience of preschool drivers-to-be. Carolyn Phelan
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