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    Recommended for children 18 Months to 3 Years
    Author
    Schertle, Alice
    Publisher
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ISBN: 9780152056612; Hardcover)
    Description
    When Blue, the pickup truck, gets stuck in the mud after helping to push a dump truck out, his farm animal friends do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road.
    Why raising readers Has Selected This Book
    Some picture books give you lots of reasons to select them. This book has a simple and wonderful story about friendship and helping others. Add animal noises, zooming trucks, compelling rhythm and rhyme, and illustrations that deliver new details with every read, and you have a near perfect picture book for two-year-olds to enjoy.
    Activities
    Turn to the back pages of the raising readers edition of this book for different ways to use this read aloud with your child. Or click here Little Blue Truck Activity

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