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Vintage bookshelf · 1970s

The Truck Book

First published
1978
Reading stage
Picture books & shared reading

Reading this with your child

This 1978 vehicle-focused book is great for a child who wants to identify what different trucks do. It's a good option for shared reading, and you can treat the older machinery as part of the book's period character.

For visual discovery, familiar read-alouds, and lap reading.

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Publication history & sources

This book is in the Publishers Weekly historical bestseller survey. Inclusion in that survey documents its cumulative popularity, but does not establish a specific sales rank within the 1970s.

Publication record for The Truck Book

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