Book Review: The Little Blue Truck Series

Little Blue Truck on Hello Rascal Kids. Family Lifestyle website for parents and kids.

Reading is an all-time favorite pastime in our house. Often, you can find us reading books, magazines, newspapers, online articles, and even cereal boxes. As a little girl, I often asked my parents if I could watch TV while eating breakfast. Sometimes they obliged, but most of the time they put the cereal box in front of me and told me to read that instead. Now as an adult, it is no exaggeration to say that I encourage all kinds of reading in our house.

These little blue books are in our collection.

A series that we continue to turn to time and again is the Little Blue Truck series. I first purchased the original book, Little Blue Truck, in 2016 after my first rascal was born. Personally, I was bored of the same simple infant books and I needed something to keep me energized and interested. The rhyming structure, vivid illustrations, sounds and noises, and subtle, simple messages from Little Blue made me quickly fall in love with the book.

I soon found other books in the series and added them to our collection. More than three years later, both of my rascals love to “read” these books on their own and often choose one as their bedtime story.

Little Blue Truck is a sweet story of a kind blue truck that, along with a herd of animal friends, helps a dump truck in a hurry.

Little Blue Truck Leads the Way contains a simple moral within the story. Little Blue enters the busyness of city life and teaches the other vehicles the importance of taking turns.

Little Blue Truck’s Halloween is a fun story about farm animals dressed up in Halloween costumes. Your rascals can guess who is hiding beneath each costume.

Little Blue Truck’s Christmas incorporates counting and the kindness of the holiday season as Little Blue delivers Christmas trees to his farm animal friends.

Little Blue Truck’s Beep-Along Book is an engaging musical book with a sing-along to the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It. Plus, the plush Little Blue beeps when squeezed!