This is a fun collection of vintage books (mostly Little Golden Books) about cars and trucks and other machines. Published between 1950 and 1973, you can see the progression of vehicles and even the jobs that have changed over the years (like the coal truck, delivering coal to heat people's homes). I always find it neat to think that the little children reading these books back then would have recognized those jobs and trucks. While reading them now, they become partly a history lesson and isn't that fun?!
Wheels and Noises
Mary Elting
pictures by Elizabeth Dauber 1950
Machines
William Dugan 1961
Go, Trucks!
David L. Harrison
illustrated by Bill Dugan 1973
Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry 1959
I find this picture humorously annoying. Notice how the text is about a family vacation and the mom is in the trailer washing dishes while the dad is relaxing with a book!
How about these great endpages?!
