Sam Goes Trucking

Sam spends the day with his trucker father in a sixteen-wheeler.

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years. Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.

Come share in the adventures of Sam the Semi, told in a humorous and exciting tale for all ages. Open the world of inquisitive minds, by following Sam the Semi into the great unknown, where locating new towns, cities, and country side locations are part of his everyday responsibility. Fall in love with characters such as Despert Dispatch and Pete the Puller only to name a few. They lend Sam a hand in delivering intriguing cargo to its new home safe and sound.

The history connections start with the transportation by my great-grandfather of army goods and supplies as colonel in charge during the Civil War. The oxen and wagons moving family goods and others to Canada and then to St. Joe, Missouri, to be with the second wagon train going west to the Oregon territory. My grandfathers, my father, and myself in our life long involvement in moving all types of freight in America. The dedication of all this and incidents along the way.

Sam spends a day in an eighteen-wheeler with his trucker father"....Best of all is the affectionate relationship between a boy and his father, who's known as 'Big Stuff' on the CB".--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

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