Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong
I Truck - A Big Rig's Epic Trip
From the Series On the Move
Honk! Honk! Follow along as a semitruck travels cross country with a load of toys. Turbo-powered text and illustrations will appeal to truck-loving kids everywhere!
Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck and take a cross-country journey with a driver and her trusty pup! The truck rumbles to the warehouse to pick up a load of toys and encounters many other trucks along the way. It makes multiple stops for deliveries, encounters a snowstorm, and navigates steep mountain roads.
From the creators of I Ship and I Fuel comes an adventure that will keep readers’ imaginations vrooming!
Millbrook Press
Non-fiction Picture Book
Age 5+
40 pp | US$ 14.99
hc | 270 x 225 mm
Publication: October 2025
Author: Kelly Rice Schmitt
Illustrator: Jam Dong
All rights available, excl. Chinese (simpl. & compl.), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Engaging story that follows a cross-country trucking adventure
- Seek-and-find element: endpapers depict objects that can be found throughout the illustrations inside the book
- Back matter includes more information about trucks, fast facts, road resources, trucker talk (glossary), and a labeled diagram of a semitruck
- Highlights the vital role of trucks in global logistics and supply chains
- Features a female driver and her canine co-pilot—promoting diversity in STEM and transportation fields
- Encourages curiosity about engineering, geography, and problem-solving
Awards
- Winner of the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards (Category: The Inside Out)
“The illustrations, featuring bold colors, watercolor, and collage, present clear images perfect for conveying concepts to young readers. . . Kids enamored with large vehicles will revel in the facts and details worked into the text and illustrations, neither of which gets bogged down by its educational load. . . Expect this big rig to rack up serious circulation miles.”—starred, Booklist, 11 September 2025
“An enticing tale of hitting the road that will hit the spot for transportation lovers.”—Kirkus Reviews, 22 August 2025
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