(3) K-3 Illustrated by Cece Bell. Unruly ants swarm a donut. Beetles have a fender bender. Captain Bob, racing from call to call, handles emergencies and settles insect-world disturbances peacefully while teaching a few manners along the way. The repeated refrain, "Wee-o! Wee-o! Wee-o! Woo! Bug Mobile coming through!" in a well-metered text will appeal to story-hour groups, as will the colorful acrylics of googly-eyed bugs raising ruckuses.

Reviewer: Rebecca Reed Whidden

(3) PS Illustrated by Melissa Iwai. "Garbage truck / with empty loader. / Alley-crawling / diesel motor. / Trash-can thunder, / sooty plume. / Grinding lever. / BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" Clever rhyming couplets capture the ways in which a preschooler's imaginative play mirrors the actions of full-sized motorized vehicles. The accompanying color-drenched acrylic paintings are especially suited to viewing by a group.

Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn

(4) PS Illustrated by Melissa Iwai. All kinds of vehicles, from trains and cars to airplanes and trucks, slowly come to rest for the night in this quiet, sometimes forced rhyme. The gradually darkening illustrations alternate between the outside world with its real eighteen-wheelers and jumbo jets and a small boy's bedroom as he puts his toy cars away and gets ready for bed.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley