Mighty Truck: Zip and Beep (Mighty Truck #5) by Chris Barton, Troy Cummings
Published by HarperCollins on December 4th 2018
ISBN: 0062344730
Pages: 32
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Mighty Truck: Zip and Beep is an I Can Read! book from the Mighty Truck series. It features a beat-up pickup truck named Clarence who needs a day off. His boss, Hattie (a road roller), tells him she has cousins coming into town, and Clarence offers to watch her cousins for the day. Zip and Beep turn out to be two tiny bulldozers who are fast and rambunctious. They play all day, including when Clarence turns into Mighty Truck, a superhero-like monster truck, until they finally take a nap in the sandbox. Hattie comes to pick up her cousins and offers Clarence the day off again tomorrow to watch more cousins. Clarence declines, saying that days off are too much work!

This book is cute, with easy-to-read text and bright cheerful illustrations. Young readers in preschool through second grade will find the playground games of Zip and Beep familiar and fun. A worthy addition to a reader collection.

Reviewed by Sarah Cropley, Scarborough Public Library.