Best New Children’s Books

Kathie Meizner, Abby McGanney Nolan, Washington Post: Books
Tue, 03/03/2015 - 2:50pm

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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