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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781416941392
ISBN number: 1416941398
Label: Aladdin
Manufacturer: Aladdin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 24
Printing Date: June 03, 2008
Publishing house: Aladdin
Age index: Ages 4-8
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Every time the trucks try to build something, Big Rig comes along, and - ZOOM! BOOM! - knocks it down! What can they do to stop such a big bully?
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I haven't read any other Trucktown books, so maybe I'm not understanding the whole relationship between this Big Rig character and the other trucks. That said, I don't see how the author could justify this story. It tells in its brief way of the various trucks performing different tasks, and of how the Big Rig comes barreling through with a menacing expression and smashes everything they do. At the end, with pained and shocked "facial" expressions, the other vehicles tell him to stop, that it was all to prepare for his birthday. To which he replies that this is his best birthday ever as he comes roaring through the last of their creations, while wearing the same homicidal leer he had before.
When I read it to my son, we sat staring at that last page and boggling at the ending. No guilt for wrecking everything they did for him? Not so much as a natural consequence to show the readers that maybe bullying is a negative thing? The other vehicles didn't even smile at the end to suggest that maybe they had planned for him to smash everything because he's like that... I mean, maybe they just knew him and accepted him. No, the book is called Zoom Zoom BULLY, and the other characters looked hurt and terrified as he roared towards his final act of destruction, after which there was no consequence at all. What message is that supposed to send? I mean, this is a little kids book. My son is 6. He needs books like this to show him clearly that if he were to try bullying kids, they would not respond by preparing a lavish birthday party where he would be able to go on a violent berserker rampage. It's just a little book, there's not much room, but they could have managed that, at least.
We actually bought this book through our school from Scholastic. I think they need to take another look at the books they provide. There are so many cute, clever, and nicely written little readers. It makes no sense to waste paper on ill-conceived stories that send negative messages.
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