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40 pp.
| HarperCollins/Cotler |
April, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-06-029848-0$$15.95
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LibraryISBN 0-06-029849-9$$15.89
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Illustrated by
Jim McMullan.
The garbage truck who narrates this down-and-dirty picture book is not a demure figure. His job description, which he outlines with healthy machismo, requires him to roar through the streets at night, doing work most people find repugnant. But without him? "You're on Mount Trash-o-rama, baby." The artist's heavily outlined depiction of the hulking beast on his nightly rounds amplifies the text's brash tone.