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K-3
Peg and Cat (of PBS Kids fame) participate in the Tallapegga Twenty with a car they built from geometric junkyard parts. Shapes and simple mathematical concepts are introduced in the busy narrative, which may make readers feel as though they are in a race. The flat illustrations look like stills from the TV show, complete with trademark graph-paper backgrounds.