So thrilled to be celebrating my debut picture book today. In the darkest days of the pandemic my daughter and I started a picture book and song writing zoom and BIG TRUCK DAY is the happy result. I was inspired by the Big Truck Days that my public library sponsored where firefighters and garbage collectors and farmers and police persons and utility & construction workers all brought their vehicles to celebrate the care of the community. There was even a blood mobile!

Niki Stage is the illustrator and this is also her debut. Her art brought such energy and joy to the page. I appreciate her vibrant and inclusive style. I’m also grateful to Lindsay Delaney, librarian extraordinaire, who encouraged me to put in a page of back matter to answer the question, What’s a bookmobile? which was bound to come up at story time.

Many thanks to the brilliant team at Greenwillow including editor Virginia Duncan and art director Sylvie Le Floc’h. Thank you to Fiona Kenshole and the team at Transatlantic for their ongoing support. And thank you to booksellers and librarians everywhere for bringing books and kids together.