Big Red Truck

by Stephen Schlossberg

Acting and Directing is designed for the beginning theatre student, explaining the roles of the actor and director and further explaining their interrelationship. Basic theatre terms and play production skills are easily learned with the helpful explanations, guidelines, and illustrations provided.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565660528
• ISBN13: 9781565660526
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Legacy Words
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 years and under

Customer Reviews

remembered through the generations

Big Red Truck is a favorite. Colored pencil illustrations by the author are wonderful and tickle kids. Children like it, adults roar with laughter. Daydreaming is not stifled but chores are done. A boy can dream big, cross the country and be home for supper. This is a slice of normal home life.

An apparently underrated exploration of young imagination.

I have read several professional reviews of "Big Red Truck." To me, these reviews seem oddly unresponsive to a wonderful book about a boy's take on an ordinary Saturday in Spotsylvania. Maybe the subdued colors (reminding me of my own youthful efforts in colored pencil), and the gently expressionistic art work, failed to attract the reviewers' eyes.To me, these subtleties are strengths, because I can take renewed interest in the book each time I read it to my toddler son. "Big Red Truck" has grown on me, my son, and my wife over the course of several months of library checkouts. I look forward no less to reading it to my daughter when she's old enough.This book has the same kind of humor (a refrigerator with a giant "Behemoth" logo, for example), nostalgia, and straightforward mystery that makes "In the Night Kitchen" so charming. Unlike that acknowledged classic of dream-time, though, "Big Red Truck" is a carefull! y controlled daydream. It's an outdoor story, set in a recognizable American landscape on the border between the rural and the suburban. A musical analogue would be the sophisticated simplicity of Pat Metheny's dreamier music.And, unlike "Night Kitchen" -- but like Maurice Sendak's superb earlier work -- at the heart of "Big Red Truck" there is an honest, significant, even dramatic interaction between parents and child.

Shenandoah boy turns trike and chores into rig and route.

A Walter Mitty-like toddler drives a big red tractor trailer, lunches at a diner, overturns his rig, and gets pulled over by a police car. His bemused parents see only a red tricycle, peanut butter sandwiches, a spill, and a fast pedaling boy. Charming pastel illustrations from an intriguing, slightly fish-eyed, perspective