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Today’s the day to TOUCH A TRUCK! This rhyming, tabbed novelty book invites young vehicle fans to explore eight fascinating trucks, with a sweet and special surprise at the end. Climb inside eight different trucks—including a fire engine, garbage truck, ambulance, and more!—and discover what makes each of them unique. Use the tabs to skip straight to your favorite vehicle, then lift the flaps and learn about the important features found inside and out.
● Eight different vehicles to choose from!
● Tabs across the top let you open to your favorite vehicle.
● Each vehicle page has one to three flaps to lift and learn.
● There are sixteen information-packed flaps throughout the book.
Brightly illustrated and filled with dynamic, fun-to-read rhymes and engaging facts, this
celebration of trucks puts readers in the driver’s seat and in the middle of the action. Tabbed
pages and liftable flap features encourage readers to develop their motor skills, learn about
vehicles, and play independently. A fun and sweet surprise at the end will have children eager to
turn every page.
Perfect for:
● Young readers enthusiastic about trucks of all kinds
● Parents and family members looking for a fun, interactive gift for birthdays and baby
showers
● Gift-givers looking for an item with good play-and-read value
● Fans of vehicle books like Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site; Trucks Go; and
First 100 Trucks
Carrie Finison began her literary career at the age of seven with an idea, a box of markers, and her father’s typewriter. She has been writing off and on ever since, though she has (somewhat regretfully) traded in the typewriter for a laptop. She is the author of Dozens of Doughnuts (Putnam, 2020), a Junior Library Guild selection; and Don’t Hug Doug (Putnam, 2021), an ALA Notable Children’s Book, which received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. She is also the author of Lulu & Zoey: A Sister Story (Running Press Kids, 2022); Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School! (Random House Studio, 2022); and Pigs Dig a Road (Putnam, 2024). Her newest picture books are Plenty of Pancakes (Putnam, 2026), a sequel to Dozens of Doughnuts; Even Steven: A Book About Sharing (Putnam, 2026), a companion book to Don’t Hug Doug which was named a Junior Library Guild gold standard selection; and Touch a Truck Day (Chronicle, 2026), a lift-the-flap board book. In addition, her poetry for children has been published in magazines including High Five, Ladybug, and Babybug. When she’s not writing, Carrie enjoys reading mystery novels, trying new recipes, and curling up on the couch for family movie nights. She lives outside Boston with her husband, son, daughter, and two cats who permit her to write in their cozy attic office.
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Beatrice, one of America’s first career women, is still feisty at ninety-six. She lives with her daughter Alexandra, who has moved to Cape Cod to care for Bea while running a bed-and-breakfast out of their beloved old house. Like so many adult children caring for elderly parents, Alexandra must balance her new job as caregiver with her role as daughter—and it isn’t easy. Bea is demanding and very verbal. Her mind is like a fireworks display on a drizzly Fourth of July—some shots fizzle out, but there are still bits of brilliance. After a knee ailment confines Bea to bed, it becomes clear her life will soon end. Convinced nothing comes next, Bea declares she doesn’t want to die. When deceased friends and family start “visiting” Bea’s bedroom, Alexandra wonders if her mom is hallucinating. Or could these visits have deeper meaning? Bea entertains her “guests” by hosting tea parties and reliving treasured memories. She reveals an unexpected kind of joy to Alexandra—a joy that brings peace and chases away the fear of death as they experience their final days together.
Alexandra Grabbe is the author of The Nansen Factor: Refugee Stories and Seeing Joy: A Story of Life, Death, and What Comes Next. She worked in journalism and broadcasting while raising three bicultural children in Paris, France. For a dozen years, she ran an eco-friendly bed-and-breakfast in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Now living in Arlington, Massachusetts, she continues her life-long passion as an author. Alexandra is a Vassar graduate. See Alexandragrabbe.com for links to her freelance writing.
The definitive book about The Cars, one of the most popular and beloved bands to emerge from New Wave, with articulate musical insights and exclusive new reporting with access to the surviving members of the band and everyone who surrounded them—from critically acclaimed writer and musician Bill Janovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling biography of Leon Russell.
Bill Janovitz is the New York Times bestselling author of Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History (2023, Hachette Books). He has also written two books on the Rolling Stones: Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones (2013, St. Martin’s Press) and Exile on Main Street (2004 for the Bloomsbury 33 1/3 series). He is one of the three founding members of the Boston-based band, Buffalo Tom, which formed in Northampton in 1986 while students at UMass Amherst. He lives with his family in Lexington, Massachusetts.