Title: Cluttered and lacking in substance
Product review: I recently bought the fire truck and train books in this series hoping to expand my 26 month old son's library of vehicle stories, and neither if us can manage to make it to the end of either one. The singsong-y text is annoying to me and confusing for my son, adding words that don't quite belong in order to rhyme. The illustrations are cute but unsatisfying and confusing-- even an 18 month old knows that birds don't drive fire trucks, and there's no context like there is in Richard Scarry's books to make that whole animal-community-worker thing make sense. Sorry to be so negative, but honestly, these books just completely grate on both of us. Try Scarry's Things That Go for whimsy, Lois Lenski's "Little" vehicle series for straightforward, calming and realistic text with childlike but beautiful illustrations, or the "There Goes A..." video series for real-life view of vehicles at work. But skip these books.
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