Best New Children’s Books

— Kathie Meizner, — Abby McGanney Nolan, Washington Post: Books
Wed, 03/04/2015 - 2:47pm

Best new children’s books

Smiling confidently, blocky trucks in bright colors cruise the streets of a city. The vertical lines of office buildings create a maze for these vehicles: a bucket truck fixing a power line, a firetruck quenching a blaze, a tow truck rescuing a yellow, unsmiling bus. And then there is the unassuming, neutral-colored, bespectacled and slightly rounded garbage truck: “He just collects the trash.” But when snow begins to fall one evening, wrapping the city in a blizzard, the other working trucks are stopped in their tracks.

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