The Little Snowplow

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 5, 2016

Review

When The Little Snowplow joins the Mighty Mountain Road Crew, all of the other much bigger trucks tells him to "leave all the heavy lifting to us." LS spends summer and fall months clearing parade routes, moving piles of leaves around and clearing streams. He is determined to prove that he can handle a big blizzard, so he exercises every day and night, pushing loads of gravel, pulling blocks of concrete and raising and lowering his plow building up his snowplow muscles and anticipating the first snowfall. When the first big blizzard comes and he is the only snowplow on the crew, as the old snowplow retired last year and is rumored to have moved beachside to Florida, LS is raring to go. Will he prove his worth? The illustrations of the different trucks are marvelous with expressive headlight eyes and smiling or sneering grills. Any child enamored of all things truck will adore this addition. Consider it for your picture book collection.

Overall Book Score: very good