Three Grumpy Trucks (Little, Brown, 2018)


This book follows the same story structure as Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! The child protagonist is the adult, and his tantrum-throwing trucks are the kids. Get it? It's a metaphor.

Illustrator Guy Parker-Rees (Giraffes Can't Dance) is great for this. He is known for animals, but I love the way he gives them toddler-like exuberance. The three grumpy trucks are just toddlers, after all.



Three Grumpy Trucks received positive reviews in both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.

It was released in paperback version in November 2019 by Scholastic.



A Chinese version is coming soon...but you have to travel to mainland China.

Fun fact: it is the favorite book of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, per this July 2019 article in Parents magazine:



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