Authors: Julie Andrews Edwards & Emma Walton Hamilton
Illustrator: Tony Walton
One-Sentence Plot Summary: A dump truck goes to the rescue during a terrible storm and saves other trucks, and stops a ship from slamming into the rocks.
Yes, the author is that Julie Andrews, and this book reads like a full-length movie, instead of a children's book.
This book was exhausting to get through. The story had way too many subplots. It was tough to tell whether the hero of the story was the little girl, her dad, or the dump truck itself. I think it took about 25 minutes to read it, and the payoff was not worth it.
The authors missed opportunities to make the trucks more interesting. They are drawn as though they are beings that can speak and act independently, but there's no proof in the story that they are anything other than normal trucks.
The pictures were just decent.
In the end, there is a nugget of an interesting story tucked into this voluminous book, but the authors buried it under far too many details and uninteresting, unimportant asides. This book needed one fewer author and one more editor.
Rating: 2 stars
Worth Getting from the Library: No
Worth Buying: No
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