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Alice Schertle

Autor(a) de Little Blue Truck

56+ Works 10,325 Membros 255 Críticas

About the Author

Alice Schertle was born in 1941. She graduated from the University of Southern California. This mother and former teacher is an award-winning poet and the author of over forty books. Her children's books include All You Need for a Beach, All You Need for a Snowman, Little Blue Truck Leads the Way, mostrar mais Little Blue Truck, A Very Hairy Bear, and Little Blue Truck's Christmas. She lives in Plainfield, Massachusetts. mostrar menos

Inclui os nomes: A. Schertle, Alice Schertle

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Obras por Alice Schertle

Little Blue Truck (2008) 3,022 exemplares
All You Need for a Snowman (2002) 1,555 exemplares
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way (2009) 1,075 exemplares
Little Blue Truck's Christmas (2014) 730 exemplares
Little Blue Truck's Halloween (2016) 579 exemplares
Little Blue Truck's Springtime (2018) 544 exemplares
Good Night, Little Blue Truck (2019) 380 exemplares
Down the Road (1995) 342 exemplares
Little Blue Truck's Valentine (2020) 231 exemplares
Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes (2009) 222 exemplares
Time for School, Little Blue Truck (2021) 179 exemplares
Very Hairy Bear (2007) 177 exemplares
A Lucky Thing (1765) 147 exemplares
Such a Little Mouse (2015) 145 exemplares
Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend (2022) 121 exemplares
All You Need for a Beach (2004) 71 exemplares
How Now, Brown Cow? (1994) 59 exemplares
Witch Hazel (1991) 49 exemplares
Look Out, Jeremy Bean! (2009) 39 exemplares
When the Moon Is High (2003) 35 exemplares
1, 2, I Love You (2004) 33 exemplares
The Skeleton in the Closet (2003) 33 exemplares
I Am the Cat (1999) 31 exemplares
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear (2003) 29 exemplares
The Adventures of Old Bo Bear (2006) 29 exemplares
Jeremy Bean's St. Patrick's Day (1987) 28 exemplares
We (2007) 27 exemplares
Keepers (1996) 26 exemplares
Advice for a Frog (1995) 26 exemplares
In My Treehouse (1983) 21 exemplares
Maisie (1995) 20 exemplares
Little Frog's Song (1992) 17 exemplares
That Olive! (1986) 16 exemplares
An Anaconda Ate My Homework (2009) 15 exemplares
That's What I Thought (1990) 13 exemplares
William and Grandpa (1989) 13 exemplares
Gus Wanders Off (1988) 11 exemplares
My Two Feet (1985) 8 exemplares
The April Fool (1981) 6 exemplares
Hob Goblin and the Skeleton (1982) 3 exemplares
The Gorilla in the Hall (1977) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

¡Pío Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes (2003) — Tradutor, algumas edições403 exemplares
Sky Magic: Poems (2009) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
A Bunch of Punctuation (2018) — Contribuidor, algumas edições26 exemplares

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Contains: Jeremy's collection -- Jeremy Bean and the dust bunny -- Jeremy Bean's St. Patrick's Day.
 
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LibrarianDest | 1 outra crítica | Jan 3, 2024 |
A story about helping others, even if they're mean to your friends (and also maybe an intro to anthropomorphic cars). And like, your friends will help YOU so maybe they'll indirectly help you help the person who was a dick? anyway lots of fun onomatopoeia.
 
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Daumari | 56 outras críticas | Dec 28, 2023 |
The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. Buses, police cars, and taxis are everywhere–and soon there's a giant traffic jam!
 
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BLTSbraille | 10 outras críticas | Jul 13, 2023 |
First, I like that the main characters have names. I find that stories with named characters are more engaging, and I think it helps get across the point of friendship. Blue was nice to all the animals and greeted them on his journey. Dump didn't. So when they got stuck, the animals only wanted to help Blue. Alas, both were saved, and Dump learned a good lesson about friendship. There is a secondary message about helping others in need, even if they don't deserve it. Overall, my boy loved the book, and I never got tired of it, despite reading it again and again, sometimes on the same night. We originally got a copy from the library but bought it for ourselves after. That probably shows how much we liked it. I suspect we will get the others in the series too.

Recommended age: 0-3 years

Writing style: The Little Blue Truck is written in verse, with a ton of animal and truck sounds. It was easy to add interesting sound effects or vary my voice when reading because of the variety of fonts, font colors, and capitalization.

Lexile score: AD390L
Decoding difficulty: 3/5
Vocabulary difficulty: 3/5
Sentences difficulty: 3/5
Patterns difficulty: 4/5

Illustration style: The illustrations pulled me into the book. They use subtle, warm colors, like autumn, which is the season the book takes place. I especially loved the illustration of Dump zooming past Blue and the animals.

Reality-based: Yes. The animals and trucks are drawn realistically, except for the big eyes on the Blue and Dump (the two vehicles in the story). The message of helping others is applicable to children, and getting stuck in mud is relatable.
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mommyonthespectrum | 56 outras críticas | Jun 16, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
56
Also by
3
Membros
10,325
Popularidade
#2,301
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
255
ISBN
217
Línguas
6

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