I really enjoy this book.Chris Van Dusen, the illustrator for the Mercy Watson series (a longtime favorite in our family), here presents a charmingly imagined child-built wonder-car.• If I Built a Car is a creative story about how a young boy named Jack designed a car. If I Built a Car is the first book in the children's picture book series If I Built..., written and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen, which follows an imaginative boy named Jack who wants to design the perfect car. White Read Aloud Award. If I built a car, it'd be totally new!Here are a few of the things that I'd do. The artistic media of this book is digital art because everything looks computer generated. The illustrations are amazing, so colorful and bright, and retro. Keeps listeners involved.What I love about this book is the thought that went into the main character’s idea of a perfect car that he himself would build. Ages 3 and up.Every time we read this book our son talks about how he would build a car. Only the first and last page of the story does not have a gutter with the illustration on the first page and the text on the second. White Read Aloud Award in 2006. He added things like a pool and a snack bar. Great pictures and fun story for young kids pre-school to 3rd grade.

This would be a great story to have students respond to by having them invent their own car with special fea.This story won the E.B. . An imaginative story that encourages children to be innovative and creative and has great rythm and illustrations.Excellent descriptive vocabulary, helps to foster your imagination. Jack’s thoughts run wild with each new, futuristic automotive feature perfectly illustrated in vivid color. Phonemic awareness is a big focus for these primary grades so this is a perfect book to use as they are learning about it. For monosyllabic terms that they may not have been familiar with at first, we could get to know them and then have an activity where they clap out how many syllables it has.This book truly deserves its E.B. It's also an excellent stepping stone to get kids' own creative juices flowing. At the end of the story, the reader reali.If I Built a Car is a story about a little boy named Jack who is interested in automobiles. Jack wants to create a design for his own automobile. The end paper is many drawings of the young boy’s ideal car. Nice use of rhyming words. It might take a little explanation, but if our experience with this book is any indication, kids love it so much they WANT to talk more about it, find details in the pictures, learn about each part of the character's invention. It reminded me sooo much of Dr. Williams and his architectural tendencies. The illustration where Jack is showing his dad that the outside of his car is made of polymer gel, the car does look like steel/metal. The age group classified for this book is a range from preschool-first grade. A fun one to read aloud with the kids. This is the tale of a little boy who tells his dad how he would design a car if he built a car. What I like most about this picture book is the creativity that it inspires in young minds. Not just regular automobiles, though. A back seat conversation between a father and a son takes readers on a rhythmic ride through Jack's imagination. Great pictures and fun story for young kids pre-school to 3rd grade. Even randomly throughout the week he will mention this... this book definitely stirs a child's Imagination!The boys like this one, and it captures girls too. From his early career in IndyCar racing and on to his unparalleled success in Formula One, we learn in comprehensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. At the end of the story, the reader realizes that this car is just a fragment of Jack's imagination and he is telling his father the story of what his car would be like if he built one. I also really liked the writing style with the different rhyming words used because that always makes it really fun to read. . Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. Adrian has designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, always with a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster.

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… Much of Newey's approach lays in these formative years, en route to becoming one of the most dominant car designers of Formula One. White Read Aloud Award can be used for a participation read aloud and gets the student’s imagination going!The character of the book is a young boy named Jack. It is definitely something I will read aloud to my classroom one day. With more read throughs I realized that it is set in the 1950s or 1960s and I thought that was a really neat perspective.It has a fireplace, bookshelf, snack bar, and pool.An all time favorite! Van Dusen writes the most amazing books. I would recommend this book for children ages 6-8 because of some of the vocabulary used in the book is challenging. White Read Aloud Award presented by the Association of Booksellers for Children. This would be a great story to have students respond to by having them invent their own car with special features.I loved this book!

He has many creative ideas and draws inspiration from from Cadillac’s, Zeppelins and the Weiner-mobile. Rhyming and syllables are two main focuses in phonological awareness so this is a great opportunity to have them identify what words rhyme on each page.
Another would draw animals so realistic you’d swear they were breathing. The text layout is always placed where it is not in the way of the detailed illustrations.