Traffic Pups

PreS-K—A lively follow-up to Pilot Pups (S & S, 2008). Leaving from a shopping bag left on a bedroom floor, eight stuffed animals travel a town of blocks via toy car, scooter, tow truck, jeep, and motorcycle with sidecar. The traffic-pup cops ticket a drag-racing mouse and frog, catch a red-light-running goose, and assist at a minor highway crash of toys. Finally, it's time to resume original positions, but since the playthings have gone from being scattered across the floor to being perfectly aligned by type, the young owner's puzzled look ends the story—to readers' insider's glee. Meadows's rhymes offer plenty of energy for this tale of motion, and Andreasen's double-page oils have clean lines and block compositions. The eventful scenes will work well for groups, so tell children to "Fasten helmets./Rev it up," because they'll enjoy this ride.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA