Review time! - Little Blue Truck

Dad: Today we're going to review the board book The Little Blue Truck.

Bill: Beep beep beep!

Dad: Beep indeed! This is one of the first books that we purchased for Bill and I've personally read it so many times that I don't even bother looking at the pages anymore.

Bill: Well, I do flip through them awfully fast. In my defense, some of them are a little boring.

Dad: Yes the art is well done but there are a few pages that are basically just brown schmeres. It's like a bagel with chocolate frosting. To be fair, the book does depict a lot of mud, however I would have liked it to be a little brighter, especially for younger children.

Bill: The pages are delicious though.

Dad:  You do add your own personal touches that's for sure. The story itself is a feel-good tale of an amiable little anthropomorphic Model T-esque truck named Blue who..

Bill: Wait what does anthropoplexic mean?

Dad: Anthropomorphic. It means that it's an inanimate object that is given human characteristics. Like eyes and such.

Bill: So why not just say a truck with eyes?

Dad: Because I rarely get to use cool words like anthropomorphic.

Bill: Okay fine carry on then.

Dad: So Blue putters around saying hi to the neighborhood farm animals when a pushy Dump flies through the countryside far too busy to say hi to anybody and ends up swooshing into a big mud puddle and getting stuck. Will Blue and the animals help him? Will he be stuck there forever and rust into bits? You'll have to read it to find out!

Bill: I like the part where the animals don't want to help the Dump and show him their butts. Then Blue jumps in and tries to help and gets stuck. And then the animals help Blue push. It's a great book!

Dad: Way to ruin the ending.

Bill: Meh. I've heard the story dozens of times and it's still one of my favorites. They'll get over it.

Dad: I suppose. In summation: It's a high quality book and has held up to a lot of abuse without the spine cracking and with only a few dents in the edges. The story moves at a good pace with a lot of opportunity to vocalize animal sounds with the kids which they always enjoy as well as several "Beep beep beeps!" from Blue. I like to give Bill a little bounce on my knee to each "beep!" which helps to keep his attention on the book.

Bill: I do like a good bounce.

Dad: So it's a definite recommendation for me. Bill?

Bill: It's probably my favorite book. Instant classic!

Dad: There you go! As an aside, I did check out some of the other Blue books
and they seem to lack something that this first book has so I'd stick with this one if you have to choose.