Merry Christmas Red Truck

The creators of the beloved board book, Red Truck, are back for a heartwarming Christmas story. It's Christmas Eve, but not everyone can make it home to celebrate. Red truck, wrapped in festive lights, must get through heavy flurries, slippery roads, and piles of snow, all before Christmas Day! Merry Christmas, Red Truck, perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike, is a fantastic addition to the beloved Red Truck and Friends series by Kersten Hamilton and Valeria Patrone. And it's just in time for the holidays!

With fun rhyming text that features the colors, sights, and sounds of the season, The Christmas Truck is sure to be a cheerful addition to your family's library. What could be merrier than Christmastime? Follow the holiday adventures of the Christmas truck and his animal friends as they choose the perfect Christmas tree Your kids will love this glittered die-cut board book that celebrates favorite Christmas traditions. Children who can't get enough of cars, trains, and anything that goes vroom will especially enjoy this fun way to anticipate Christmas morning.

Can Red Truck make it up the hill? Red Truck can! Red Truck will! ZOOOM! Truck fans of all ages but especially the littlest ones will love cheering on the hardworking red tow truck that stars in this high energy picture book. Mighty Red Truck splashes and zooms through mud and rain to rescue a stalled school bus on the side of the road, and becomes the hero of a rainy day. Eye-popping quirky illustrations and the fast-paced rhyming text will make this truck story a fast favorite.

It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.

95+ recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert from the award-winning Red Truck Bakery near Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, bringing the comfort and charm of the farmhouse where the bakery started into your kitchen “Original and highly personal, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook is a joyful love story to many comfort foods.”—Jacques Pépin, chef and author “If a cookbook could be a page-turner, this is the one! Brian not only knows how to create comfort in spades, but he writes both the sweet and savory recipes in such a way that you feel like you’re part of those five generations who inspired these vittles.”—Carla Hall, chef and author ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Garden & Gun Brian Noyes, founder of the beloved Red Truck Bakery in Marshall, Virginia, and author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, presents more than 95 all-new, comforting recipes celebrating ingredients and traditions from the bakery's home on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. With small-town charm, an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, and country comfort inspiration from the 170-year-old farmhouse where the bakery began, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook features Brian’s favorite savory recipes and old-time classics from family, friends, and the bakery archives. This is the food that Brian cooks at home as well as for the bakery's thousands of customers nationwide—plus recipes for favorite Red Truck Bakery dishes that have not been shared before. From delightful lunch and dinner options like Potato & Pesto Flatbread, Corn Crab Cakes with Jalapeño Mayonnaise, Mid-July Tomato Pie, Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary and Blueberries, and Sweet Potato and Poblano Enchiladas, to knockout desserts like Lexington Bourbon Cake, Virginia Peanut Pie, and Caramel Cake with Pecans (which Garden & Gun magazine called "the perfect Southern dessert"), the recipes in The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook are what we are all craving—unfussy, homey, Southern-leaning dishes that focus on local produce but don’t shy away from decadence. And for those who are eating vegetarian or vegan, there are plenty of plant-based options, like a vegan and gluten-free Coffee Cake, Carrot & Leek Pot Pies, Mushroom-Ricotta Lasagne with Port Sauce, and the Bakery's beloved “Beetloaf” Sandwiches. True to the spirit of the Red Truck Bakery, the recipes in the Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook deliver unfailingly delicious comfort all year round.

While waiting for the roads to be cleared after a winter storm, a lonely over the road trucker, Kris Krangle, befriends a little girl a few days before Christmas who thinks he is Santa Claus. His act of kindness doesnt go unnoticed, and his striking resembles to the jolly ole fellow leads to wonderful adventures across some of the Rocky Mountains' interstate highways. As Kris drives his big red rig over the snowy mountains highways the magic and miracles of Christmas unfold before the often moist eyes of this kind, lonely trucker as other truckers and helpers become silent elves. Enjoy the gift of Christmas on this special heart warming ride through the mountains as a Semi Santa spreads joy and happiness on his way home.

My desire was to create a story that conveys selflessness, kindness, values, and the importance of relationships. I want to instill in children the joy I find in reading. This book celebrates the simplicity of life while spurring the imagination of children and adults alike.