Vroom!
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From beloved author and artist Barbara McClintock comes Vroom!, a playful picture book following a little girl's imaginative journey in a race car.
Join a little girl as she zooms—
past fields and forests,
up mountains,
over rivers,
through deserts,
home again,
and into bed in this playful picture book about the power of imagination, from award-winning author and artist Barbara McClintock.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this high-octane adventure, the hero does just as she pleases and makes it back in time for bed. One evening, Annie fits her helmet over her mass of red curls with a big smile on her face, gets into her race car a sleek, torpedo-shaped unit that sits low to the ground and rockets right out of her open bedroom window, the car leaving a stream of exhaust over the backyard. "It was a fine evening for a drive," the narrator continues, with delicious understatement, as Annie and her car blast across an impossibly expansive vista of plowed fields, and great mountains loom on the horizon. She hurtles on through magnificent stretches of geography scaling peaks, sailing through red rock formations, zooming through forests and along city streets before overtaking a surprised field of competitors on a race course and heading home. McClintock's crisp, clean landscape spreads have the precision of architectural drawings, and her economically told story offers all the greatest charms of adventure: being on one's own, seeing new places, and going really, really fast. It's a richly gratifying fantasy. Ages 4 7. \n
