The book teaches a lot about kindness and respect. It is his favorite book, and it’s a very good book to be so. I read The Little Blue Truck to the boy I babysit every night I babysit. Student Name: Hannah Timmĝate Submitted: 4/30/19īook Title: The Little Blue Truck Lexile: 390 Indoctrinate your child at the altar of Atari, friend, or she's gonna learn the hard way what really happens when frogs meet trucks. She's suited to go to college and become a software engineer. You've been reading her cute little rhyming books. And if you allow your child to be indoctrinated into the Red Army, before you know it she's going to run off thinking she can farm or smelt or push dump trucks or whatever, and let me be straight with you, friend: she can't. The American Way is you best call a tow truck, and if you can't afford a tow truck then you have a truck problem. Real talk: a frog can't move a dump truck. 'With great labor we will fulfill the plan' But is any of that acknowledged in this insidious communist propaganda? Of course not! The real-life result was a lot of bad steel and no one had any pots left. You know what Little Blue Truck sounds like to me? It sounds like Little Red Book, and this story is an allegory for Mao's Great Leap Forward, during which everyone, regardless of their innate ability or training, was set to melting metal down into steel.

'Everybody is fully occupied in production' Sound familiar? That's because it is COMMUNISM! If all pull together, even the largest tasks can be accomplished. Even if, like the frog, they are not best suited for pushing, they must join equally in the fight. Whatever their individual strengths, all must join in the struggle to move the enormous truck. In the end it's the addition of the little green frog who pushes them over the edge that last little bit is enough to help the dump truck.Ī mighty machine can only be moved by the combined strength of every citizen. Jill passed away in August 2017.A dump truck gets stuck in the mud plucky little blue truck can only get him out with the help of all his friends. Jill McElmurry was the illustrator of many picture books, including her own Mad About Plaid, When Otis Courted Mama by Kathi Appelt and the best-selling Little Blue Truck series, written by Alice Schertle. She happily divided her time between the wide landscape of New Mexico and a green island in Minnesota. Alice Schertle is a poet and author of many well-loved books for children, including the beloved, #1 New York Times best-selling Little Blue Truck series ,Very Hairy Bear, Button Up!, and All You Need for a Snowman.

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