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All Kinds of Cars
By Carl Johanson

Provides labeled illustrations of both real and imagined cars, trucks, and other vehicles, including a forklift, scooter, ambulance, sock car, and igloo car.

By Todd Parr

Illustrations and simple text reveal many things that cars and trucks like to do, from just being on the road to helping keep the planet clean. Includes safety tips.

By Peter Stein

Cars of all shapes, colors, and sizes--including an igloo ice-fueled polar car and an eco-friendly car that runs on air--are presented in illustrations and rhyme.

By Jon Scieszka 

 As soon as Jack Truck wakes up he gets the other trucks in line, but somehow he misses Pete.

By Richard Scarry

On their way to the beach for a picnic the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.

By Jennifer Liberts 

Two siblings spot a variety of trucks, play with toy trucks, and watch monster trucks at a state fair.

By Cheryl B. Klein

As children go to sleep, trucks of all kinds team up in the sky to create a thunderstorm.

By Wil Mara

Describes different types of trucks.

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