Good Luck, Ice Cream Truck!

Hardcover

Synopsis

Neighborhood friends greet eight different trucks until the truck they're really waiting for—the ice cream truck—finally arrives. A sweet and colorful celebration of vehicles, community, friendship, and ice cream, illustrated by Terry Runyan.

So many trucks drive down our street,

each with a job it must complete.

We’ll wave to all and wish them luck,

until we see the ICE CREAM TRUCK!

The sweet anticipation of waiting for the ice cream truck is tempered by the arrival of eight exciting trucks—a dump truck, a mail truck, a fire truck, a news truck, a utility truck, an excavator, a garbage truck, and a cement truck—in this picture book celebration of vehicles, professions, community, friendship, and delicious ice cream. Illustrated by Terry Runyan and featuring a lively call-and-response text and a Richard Scarry–inspired neighborhood, Good Luck, Ice Cream Truck! will appeal to preschoolers everywhere.

Author

Sorche Fairbank lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and in New York's Hudson Valley. While the first picture books she ever loved tended to involve animals (church mice, an elephant king, circus koalas, a pig with a talking bone), her nephew's passion for stories about trucks won her over. She is the author of Trucks on Trucks, illustrated by Nik Henderson, and Good Luck, Ice Cream Truck!, illustrated by Terry Runyan.

Illustrator

Terry Runyan is a visual artist and creative encourager. After a long career as an in-house illustrator for Hallmark, Terry now runs her own business creating art and videos and leading classes. Terry is the author of several books about creativity, including Painting Happiness and Painting Cats. She lives in Leawood, Kansas.

Praise

“Trucks putter through town to onlookers’ delight and disappointment, and spectators bid each one farewell and wish it good luck—all the while dreaming of the delectable goodies to come. . . . With characters rendered in bright watercolors and their homes and greenery depicted in appealing collages, . . . vehicle fans will be delighted.”
-Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN: 9780062842114
32 pages
10 in H | 9 in W | 0.9 lb Wt