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CM . . . . Volume XXIII Number 14 . . . . December 9, 2016
This little book has been published by Rock's Mills Press, an independent Ontario publisher with a self-described mission to publish "books that matter", many of these being adult non-fiction on Canadian historical subjects.
The illustrations are bright computer-generated art, with foreground figures decisively outlined in black and slightly more fuzzy backdrops showing city streets, freeways, fields and mountains. The human faces are simplified (eyes and mouths only – no noses) with unwaveringly cheerful expressions. Each scene is described in two lines of doggerel verse, some of which scans and rhymes and some of which does not. For example:
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My Car Can Take Me Far is Escalante's second book and animation artist Berardo's first. Libraries and schools can do much better with their budgets – even though no price is actually indicated on the book. Not Recommended. Ellen Heaney is a retired children's librarian living in Coquitlam, BC.
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My Car Can Take Me Far has the feel of a self-published work. It is a small, square paperback featuring the same two characters (mother and son?) travelling to a variety of places in a little blue car and eventually ending up back in their garage where they express that old sentiment that getting around is nice, but home is, after all, best.