Rattletrap Car
Diane Davies reads Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Jill Barton, with permission from Candlewick Press.
“It’s hot. Hot, hot, hot! So Junie and Jake and Poppa and the baby want to go to the lake. But can they make it there in their rattletrap car? It doesn’t go fast, and it doesn’t go far — but with the help of some razzleberry dazzleberry snazzleberry fizz, a beach ball, a surfboard, and a three-speed, wind-up, paddle-wheel boat, they’re off to the lake where it’s cool, cool, cool! Phyllis Root’s wonderfully inventive wordplay and Jill Barton’s spirited, expressive illustrations make this a read-aloud road trip to remember. ”
Phyllis Root
Phyllis Root is the author of fifty books for children, almost all of them picture books, both fiction and non-fiction, and one book for grown-ups on Minnesota’s wildflowers. Her books have won the Minnesota Book Award, Boston Globe Horn Book Award, a McKnight Fellowship, and two Riverby Awards as well as a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award and Midwest Independent Booksellers Award. She currently teaches in the Hamline University Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults low-residency program.