Love Is a Truck

Amy Novesky is an award-winning children's book editor and author. Her books include Cloth Lullaby and Me, Frida, as well as Imogen: the Mother of Modernism and Three Boys and Love Is a Tutu, published by Cameron Kids. She lives with her family just north of San Francisco. Sara Gillingham is an award-winning art director and a best-selling author/illustrator, whose titles include the In My series of 12 novelty books, which has sold over 750,000 copies, and Love Is a Tutu, published by Cameron Kids. She lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada.

"Novesky and Gillingham follow Love Is a Tutu with a lighthearted, vehicle-centric reflection on love. Some of the analogies in Novesky’s mostly unrhymed verse work better than others: the idea that 'Love is a loader. Love is a lifter' in one constructed-themed scene has real resonance, compared to lines that just name-check vehicles ('Love is a dump truck, rounded with dirt./ A bulldozer, a digger, a rolling cement mixer'). Gillingham’s clean graphics showcase one child’s very evident love of toy trucks; the brown-skinned, overalls-clad child’s gender isn’t apparent, a reminder that truck love is universal." – Publishers Weekly