Zoom City

by Thacher Hurd

Overview

For active toddlers exploring their world, this energetic book bursts with the noisy sounds children love to imitate.Honk! Honk! Beep! Beep! Zoom City zooms with cars—and dogs!— on the go. Active toddlers, busy exploring their world, will love this energetic book that’s filled with the noisy sounds they love to imitate.

Honk! Honk! Beep! Beep! Zoom City zooms with cars—and dogs!— on the go. Active toddlers, busy exploring their world, will love this energetic book that’s filled with the noisy sounds they love to imitate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780694010578
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/03/1998
Series:	Growing Tree Series
Edition description:	BOARD
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Thacher Hurd is the award-winning author and illustrator of several children's books. He lives with his wife, Olivia, in Berkeley, California.

Thacher Hurd es un autor e ilustrador que ha recibido varios premios por sus libros para niños. Vive con su esposa, Olivia, en Berkeley, California.

Editorial Reviews

A fast-paced, zip-zapping board book that begs to be read with as much gusto as possiblepreferably three or four times in a row. "Away we go!/Old cars, new cars,/ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM!/Big cars,/little cars,/BE-BOP,/KA-ZOOM!" The bright and busy illustrations are packed with energy. The edges blur a bit (since the cars are racing around so fast) and the pages are dotted with electric squiggles and jagged lines outlining the various cars. A whiz-bang choice for toddler collections.Lisa Gangemi Krapp, Sousa Elementary School, Port Washington, NY

School Library Journal

The very simple text takes a back seat to the flashy visuals, but it is sharp and lively. -- The New York Times Book Review

Scott Veale

In the new Harper Growing Tree series, a Go Dogs, Go! for the '90s. Hurd (Art Dog) piles dogs into cars, and allows them to drive through the neon-washed streets of the city: "Big cars, little cars, be-bop, ka-ZOOM!" The canines honk, bop, and race until a smash-up temporarily puts them out of commission. A little tinkering in the repair shop fixes up their vehicles as good as new. This stylish, jazzy cruise is depicted in illustrations that are part cartoon, part paste-up, where vintage cars and more futuristic models have streaks of colored light and gleaming chrome to tantalize young eyes. The melange of colors and collage practically guarantees a joy ride.

Kirkus Reviews