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This book explores what happens in the village garage (basically the department of public works) by going through each season and covering processes like road repair, downed power lines, and leaf clean up. Probably very interesting to children who are curious about these processes or have seen some of the public works employees hard at work! Best for preschool to early-elementary kids.
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This book shows readers what happens at a repair shop throughout the year. The illustrations show many types of trucks and tools, while the text describes the work taking place at the garage as the weather changes with the seasons.
A good book for boys, this one tells the story of the seasons as the relate to the village garage. It features the machinery important to keeping society moving. Spring, summer, fall, and winter clean-up projects are featured.
I'd say this book is non-fictionish because it depicts what goes on at the Village Garage all year.There's plenty of machines, and jobs to do, and weather to deal with!I love that you get to see how the work changes throughout the year.The illustrations are awesome (as always with G. Brian Karas)and there's more storylines drawn into each picture.A great book for children who love construction and outdoor work and wonder about all the things that those big machines (and the people who drive them...
A village garage (the county engineer kind, not fix-the-car type) and employees are shown through each season. Children who are interested in behind the scenes details about how things work will enjoy this title.
I enjoy this book talking about all the seasons. This is awesome way to demostrate the children regarding what you can do in different seasons. The Village Garage were busy all year all. The author G. Brian Karas, kept the story interesting as well the illustration is a picture-book for the children can follow with the sentence. It describe all the community workers to help the community to keep it clean and safe. This is a great book for pre-kindgarten and older to follow up as a show and tell
This book is a good addition to our collection, because it is so many things. It is a season book, a book about big machines, a book about communities, and a good picture book. Too bad it can't be four copies of itself so it can last long enough for people to enjoy it for all of these reasons.
Truck and machine loving little boys (don't mean to be sexist but that is who asks for these type books) will eat this one up. Nicely done, not your usual truck/machine book - this one is in the year of a village garage and how they must gather up leaves and snow, paint lines in the row, address flood emergencies etc. with a variety of trucks and machines doing the jobs. Humor throughout and approachable art - will put this on the purchase list pronto for HCL.
Charming look at what happens behind the scenes to make a village work.
The title will make readers think this is a "Car Talk" sort of garage, but what it really is a small city maintenance/public works garage where the staff cares for the town's roads year round. Snowplows in winter, chipper/shredders in the spring, road resurfacers in the spring, children are treated to seeing a wide variety of work trucks. Not for toddlers, but preschoolers will enjoy seeing these working wheels and those of you who whine about where your tax dollars go will see some of them in a...
I love picture books like this: a slice of life with an interesting character or two and zero plot. This is perfect for my kids right now who love the idea of "workers" and machines and fixing stuff. Bonus that this is based on a "village garage" in Rhinebeck, NY, an area of upstate NY that I love.
Great book; novel concept. The four seasons are expressed via the tools, trucks, and tasks required of a local town maintenance crew. All tool and truck lovers will really enjoy this book. Fun illustrations, too.
I quite enjoyed hanging out with the folks at the Village Garage, as each season brings new fun, AND new chores. Spring brings clean-up, and mulching branches knocked down by winter storms. Summer means patching potholes and painting stripes on roads. Fall is leaves, leaves, leaves, and Winter . . . well, plows, plows, plows. And, before you know it, it's time to start all over again. The author's illustrations are, as always, a delight.
it's like the circle of life but for road maintenance crews. Interesting concept
Boys in community eat books like this up!! The title could be confusing. I live in the Western United States and a Village is something in England..but I do know in the Eastern United States some small towns are called Villages. This was little confusing for me, but all the "boy" stuff, street sweepers, snow plows etc is a great hit. The pictures are great, the explanations are good, and there is some subtle humor in it all! Fun!!
Village Garage explains how the workers in a city garage take care of the necessary city work throughout the four seasons (making mulch, paving roads, repairing bridges, painting street lines, picking up leaves and clearing the streets of snow. Excellent book for grade K-1 studying careers.
Follow the activities of the workers from the village garage as the seasons change. In spring, the workers are cleaning up sticks, creating mulch, and washing the trucks. In summer, they are fixing the roads, picking up garbage, and mowing the grass. They even deal with the effects of a summer thunderstorm that takes out a bridge. In autumn, they suck up the leaves. In winter, work is slower until the snow starts and then they wish for spring to come again. The book mixes the interesting tools a...
Watch the village garage crew complete their various jobs in each season.Enjoyable & informative, albeit a little long for a story that's kind of perfect for K. That's OK though, 1st & 2nd grade will entirely dig it. Good for units on jobs/public helpers, construction and truck fans, seasons, etc. Love the illustrations - bright, clean, and big enough for story times. Bonus points for all the fun sound you get to make while reading!
A wonderful truck book with a different kind of concept--for me at least. I like that it follows the company throughout the year and shows many different things that this company of trucks can help with. I think this will be an excellent preschool choice, considering its length might be a bit too long for toddlers. Though this would be a great lap-read with a toddler--especially one who loves trucks!11/26/11 I'm sure I've read this in a preschool storytime! I just can't remember when. It had to