FICTION

Good Morning, Snowplow!

by Deborah BRUSS
Good Morning, Snowplow! illus. by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson. 32p. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks. Oct. 2018. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781338089493.
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PreS-Gr 1—The painterly illustrations by Fancher and Johnson are the real star in this rhyming ode to the lone trucks working into the wee hours of many blustery nights. The rhythmic narrative follows a snow plow driver (and his dog) as he says goodnight to his neighborhood and gets ready for an oncoming storm. He picks up his salt, tests his rig, and plows into the blizzard. "Snow keeps falling fast and deep./Miles to plow before you sleep./Pay attention. What's ahead?/Take no chances. Stop instead." The man rescues a stranded driver, watches a midnight train blow snow from the tracks, and returns home just as everyone else is waking up.
VERDICT A quietly heroic choice, perfect for preschool winter units and for construction truck lovers everywhere.
Reviewed by Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, Beavercreek, OH , Oct 01, 2018

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