One Tractor

By Alexandra Siy

Book Overview

With trucks, trains, planes, and pirates, this counting book is more than meets the eye. Guided Reading Level G.

When one tractor in the grass runs out of gas, the backyard doesn't stay quiet for long. Soon pirates sail in to play, and the backyard races to life with airplanes, cranes, trucks, and trains.

The simple rhyming text is paired with detailed illustrations depicting the young boy's imaginative games-- three ships full of pirates, four cranes building a city of sandcastles, five trucks zooming across the lawn.

Readers can count along as the vehicles and machines soar, hoist, dig, and zoom in this fantastical number book. Young readers, boys partricularly, will love the trucks, trains, vehicles, and machines--and pirates--that spill across each page. The humorous and imaginative play portrayed in this book perfectly balances its emphasis on counting.

The award-winning I Like to Read(R) series focuses on guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read with parents, teachers, or on their own

For early-to-mid first grade readers, Level G books feature more complex storylines than prior levels, and a wider variety of structure and punctuation. Illustrations offer support for decoding the more challenging vocabulary words introduced.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082344015X
• ISBN13: 9780823440153
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Counting and Trucks!

I purchased this book for my 2 year old after seeing it in the library and having to sneak it away from my son to return it back to the library. He LOVED this book because it was full of fun colors and lots of different trucks. It's also written in a catchy rhyming way and the bonus is that it's also reinforcing numbers (and colors). I think this is the perfect preschool book because it's fun but there's lots of educational opportunities. We would read it and I'd leave out truck words, or we'd name colors, or count trucks or talk about the little characters on the page and the story told through the illustrations. There are tons of books on trucks but this one is a favorite in our house...even a year after buying it.

One of My Sons Favorites

First got this book from the library and my now 3 year old loved it. After returning it he would often ask for it at bedtime even after weeks had passed. We finally bought it and he still loves it. One thing about the paperback version is that the colors don't seem as bright/vivid as the hardback version we had from the library. That's why I took off one star.

"One Tractor" many readings

My two year old LOVES this book! We read it many, many times a week... "Again!" Is the plea or "I want tractor book." The pictures are amazingly detailed and beautifully done. The writing is simple yet poetic. I would highly recommend this for any little reader!