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  Monster Trucks!

  Mark Todd

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  Monster Trucks!

  Mark Todd

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Giant dirt-dumping trucks. Heaving and hauling heavy loads of rubble, tipping his load without any trouble.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Green gargling garbage trucks. Eating and crunching, munching and slurping. Just don't be around when this guy starts burping.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Sloshing steel tanker trucks. A milk-hungry heifer, a big-bellied beast—a vitamin-D dose for strong bones and teeth.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Big bulldozer trucks. Scraping and shoveling with a sneering tooth blade, leveling the earth for the roads to be laid.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Wide-mouthed plowing trucks. Carving a path and pushing aside snow from the road so you won't slip or slide.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Smooth steamroller trucks . He'll squash and crush and flatten out anything that comes under his powerful snout.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Flame-fighting fire trucks. Sirens wailing and blaring, lights blazing and whirring—rushing off to put out whatever is burning.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Slime-sucking sweeper trucks. Snorting and scrubbing with a big bristly brush—cleaning the streets for the 9 o'clock rush.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Rough, tough towing trucks. Hoisting and hauling, pulling and tugging. There's nothing this guy can't handle lugging.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Rolling round mixer trucks. Belly churning and turning, jumbling and tumbling. For all that he eats you think it'd stop grumbling.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Eighteen-wheel semi trucks. Stacks huffing and puffing, engine creating a roar. From coast to coast, that's a big 10-4.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Heavy-duty digging trucks. Using a steely clawed arm, with a thirty-foot reach, what a great shoveling partner to have at the beach.

  CHUCK

  DUMP TRUCK

  Weight 105 tons, empty; 275 tons, full

  Top speed 34 miles per hour (7 miles per hour in reverse)

  Tires 9 1/2 feet tall

  Special feature Hydraulic pumps can lift and dump a load in 15 seconds.

  STINK

  GARBAGE TRUCK

  Weight 17 tons, empty

  Capacity Up to 20 cubic yards of trash

  Special feature Hydraulic compacting jaw can crush a couch in seconds.

  SEÑOR MOO

  MILK TANKER TRUCK

  Length 67 feet

  Weight 15 tons, empty; 35 tons, full

  Capacity 40,000 pounds of milk

  Tank Stainless steel, sterile, and refrigerated to below 40°F during storage and transportation.

  Special feature Milk is pumped into the storage tank at 1,200 to 1,500 pounds per minute. Suction hoses unload the tank in less than 15 minutes.

  DOZER

  BULLDOZER

  Weight 42 tons

  Blade 14 feet wide

  Special feature Heavy-duty blade has reinforced steel cutting teeth for easy tearing.

  MR.SALTY

  SNOWPLOW

  Weight 12 tons, empty; 17.5 tons, filled with salt

  Plow blade 12 feet wide, carbide-steel tipped

  Special feature Unloads 225 pounds of salt per lane mile using a computer-controlled conveyer belt.

  SMOOSH

  ROLLER TRUCK

  Weight 17 tons

  Roller width 84 inches

  Compaction pressure 26,550 pounds per square inch

  Special feature Water spray system keeps rollers cool on hot asphalt.

  BIG RED

  FIRE TRUCK (LADDER TRUCK)

  Length 40 feet

  Weight 22 tons

  Ladder reach Up to 100 feet

  Top speed 75 miles per hour

  Special feature Carries 800 feet of hose, which can pump up to 1,500 gallons of water per minute.

  SUDS

  SWEEPER

  Weight 10 tons

  Capacity Up to 9 cubic yards of debris

  Special features 36-inch gutter-scrubbing brushes. Some sweepers have suction hoses to help snort up dirt.

  BIG TOW

  TOW TRUCK

  Height 8 feet

  Weight 10 tons

  Lift capacity 6,000 pounds

  Special feature Remote-controlled hydraulic wheel-lift to hoist cars.

  MISH-MASH

  CONCRETE MIXER

  Weight 18 tons, empty

  Capacity 12 cubic yards

  Chute 10 feet long and can be rotated in order to guide cement

  Special feature Barrel spins one way to mix the cement and spins the other way to pour.

  LONG JOHN

  SEMITRAILER TRUCK

  Length Up to 80 feet

  Weight 18 tons, empty; up to 40 tons, full

  Capacity 35,000 cubic feet

  Special features 18 wheels and a sleeper compartment with bunk beds and television. A driver may travel more than 175,000 miles a year.

  DOUG

  DIGGER OR EXCAVATOR

  Height 15 feet to top of cab

  Length of arm 38 feet

  Weight 104 tons

  Special feature Hydraulic arm can reach up to 44 feet high and dig 28 feet down.

  Monster trucks! Monster trucks! Mighty, massive MONSTER trucks!

  They squash and crush, churn and crunch, pack and stack and mix and munch!

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  A monster-size board book of all your favorite Monster Trucks!

  Monster trucks!

  Monster trucks!

  Mighty, massive

  MONSTER

  trucks!

  "A good choice for storytime and one-on-one sharing,

  this book will spend more time on the road than on the shelf."

  —School Library Journal

  Copyright © 2003 by Mark Todd

  All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.

  www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Todd, Mark.

  Monster trucks! / written and illustrated by Mark Todd.

  Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text depict a wide variety of trucks, including bulldozers, eighteen-wheelers, garbage trucks, and fire trucks.

  ISBN 0-618-18208-X (hardcover) ISBN 0-618-58119-7 (board book)

  [1. Trucks—Fiction. 2. Construction equipment—fiction.

  3. Stories in rhyme.] I. Title.

  PZ8.3.T562MO 2003 [E]—dc21 2002155544

  Printed in China LEO 10 9 8 7 6 5

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