A Fire Truck for Chuck

A Fire Truck for Chuck is a sweet story about a little boy who loves his toy fire truck. The text has a strong emphasis on words that rhyme with the truck, and almost every sentence in the book ends with the letter “k”. Its tongue-twisting sentence fragments make the story a bit of a challenge to read aloud, but many children will enjoy hearing it.

The cartoon illustrations by Cathon were created with hand-drawn ink lines and coloured in Photoshop. They show a boy and his mother in stereotypical gender roles. While a cute story, A Fire Truck for Chuck is overall bland and unexceptional. The attempts at playing with sound seem forced, but the book will probably find an audience among truck-loving preschoolers.