Cars

Cars by Patricia Hubbell

This book would have been PERFECT a few weeks ago in my practicum classroom! I am so upset that I didn't find it until now =( My students were working on a car/automobile/transportation unit and this book would have been so fun to read. The illustrations were so different than anything I have seen before, since they looked like the characters on each page were glued into the paintings. Some of the pages were typical and read horizontally, while some of the other pages were flipped and read vertically. Not only did the words rhyme, but sometimes the font changed to match what words were used to really exaggerate the story. The font was either changed in size, boldness, type, and sometimes the words were twisted and contorted to match the road that the cars were driving on. Sometimes, things in the illustrations were labeled as well, for example, as a car drove down a road, the author labeled the different places that could be traveled to, such as mountains, forests, deserts, and farmlands. In a page similar to this, the author pointed out the basic parts of a car. This is just a flat out awesome book to teach to kids, and to demonstrate rhyming and show how cool and different writers can make the words and illustrations in a story look. I LOVE this book!