Truckery Rhymes. Scieszka, Jon (author). Design Garage (illustrator). (2009). New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 57 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4169-4135-4.
Poetry: Nursery Rhymes: Ages 4 to 8
Setting:
The setting can best be described as a Mother Goose type land but with trucks instead of animals and people. The front cover of the book is a huge tire with trucks hanging out the windows, reminiscent of the illustrations depicting the classic tale of the old woman who lived in the shoe. All of the poems within are plays on words of the most popular nursery rhymes today.
The setting can best be described as a Mother Goose type land but with trucks instead of animals and people. The front cover of the book is a huge tire with trucks hanging out the windows, reminiscent of the illustrations depicting the classic tale of the old woman who lived in the shoe. All of the poems within are plays on words of the most popular nursery rhymes today.
Plot:
Truckery Rhymes takes the reader through 22 rhymes and songs that most children today are familiar with. Three Bling Mice becomes Three Loud Trucks. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater becomes Peter Peter Payload Eater, and Swing Around With Rosie is about a bulldozer who smashes and bashes until "it all falls down!" The poems all stand on their own, with no tie ins to one another except for familiar truck characters appearing from one rhyme to another.
Truckery Rhymes takes the reader through 22 rhymes and songs that most children today are familiar with. Three Bling Mice becomes Three Loud Trucks. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater becomes Peter Peter Payload Eater, and Swing Around With Rosie is about a bulldozer who smashes and bashes until "it all falls down!" The poems all stand on their own, with no tie ins to one another except for familiar truck characters appearing from one rhyme to another.
Author/Illustrator:
Jon Scieszka takes classic nursery rhymes and Mother Goose rhymes and reconfigures them to include trucks. The author is a big advocate for getting boys to read, and many of his books appeal to both boys and girls. These rhymes maintain their original rhythms and are fun to read aloud. Design Garage is a team of illustrators, and they incorporate everything from dump trucks, to diesels, to monster trucks in the various illustrations.The illustrations are colorful and engaging. They also incorporate the words of the poems into the illustrations to draw the reader in and help them figure out some of the words based on inference from the pictures and their familiarity with the classic versions of the rhymes. School Library Journal called the illustrations "colorful, energetic, and playful: the vehicles have personality plus. One flashy spread shows all of them and their sound words from "The Wheels on the Truck," and another picture shows the ice-cream truck parked on a moon made of ice cream. This effervescent picture book will zoom off your shelves."
Jon Scieszka takes classic nursery rhymes and Mother Goose rhymes and reconfigures them to include trucks. The author is a big advocate for getting boys to read, and many of his books appeal to both boys and girls. These rhymes maintain their original rhythms and are fun to read aloud. Design Garage is a team of illustrators, and they incorporate everything from dump trucks, to diesels, to monster trucks in the various illustrations.The illustrations are colorful and engaging. They also incorporate the words of the poems into the illustrations to draw the reader in and help them figure out some of the words based on inference from the pictures and their familiarity with the classic versions of the rhymes. School Library Journal called the illustrations "colorful, energetic, and playful: the vehicles have personality plus. One flashy spread shows all of them and their sound words from "The Wheels on the Truck," and another picture shows the ice-cream truck parked on a moon made of ice cream. This effervescent picture book will zoom off your shelves."
Class room Tie-ins:
Students could be encouraged to pick a popular nursery rhyme or poem and rewrite the words about something that interests them. They could then illustrate the poem and it can be displayed in the classroom. Poetry is fun for young children, and this is way to engage those students who prefer recess to poetry. A teacher or librarian could not tell the title of the poem and get listeners to guess which poem it is based on the rhythm of the words. According to the PBS Child Development tracker, 4 and 5 year olds benefit from listening to "nursery rhymes, songs and poems that contain rhyming words, and by adults explicitly labeling these as "rhymes" for the child. Adults can also point out words that begin with the same sound, sound out words for the child, and play games with rhyming words and words that begin with the same sound."
Students could be encouraged to pick a popular nursery rhyme or poem and rewrite the words about something that interests them. They could then illustrate the poem and it can be displayed in the classroom. Poetry is fun for young children, and this is way to engage those students who prefer recess to poetry. A teacher or librarian could not tell the title of the poem and get listeners to guess which poem it is based on the rhythm of the words. According to the PBS Child Development tracker, 4 and 5 year olds benefit from listening to "nursery rhymes, songs and poems that contain rhyming words, and by adults explicitly labeling these as "rhymes" for the child. Adults can also point out words that begin with the same sound, sound out words for the child, and play games with rhyming words and words that begin with the same sound."
Personal Response:
I thought this was a cute variation on traditional nursery rhymes and poems. Having worked with the preschool through 2nd grade age group, I know how much boys in this age group love trucks. I feel this is the type of book that might appeal to the 'reluctant reader'. I also really applaud Jon Scieszka's efforts to write materials that appeal to boys and get them to enjoy reading at a young age. I was first introduced to his work when I discovered the True Story of the Three Little Pigs, which children also love. He is always incorporating different perspectives into his work and children respond to that.
Resources:
Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]. (2013). Child development tracker. Retrieved from:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopmenttracker/four/literacy.html
School Library Journal (2009, August). [Review of the book Truckery Rhymes by Jon Scieszka]. Retrieved from:
http://web.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=e7f36a94-dc2c-4f73-b7f8-089b82b08f19%40sessionmgr14&hid=10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=43698372
Resources:
Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]. (2013). Child development tracker. Retrieved from:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopmenttracker/four/literacy.html
School Library Journal (2009, August). [Review of the book Truckery Rhymes by Jon Scieszka]. Retrieved from:
http://web.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=e7f36a94-dc2c-4f73-b7f8-089b82b08f19%40sessionmgr14&hid=10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=43698372
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