If you were a garbage truck or other big-wheeled worker!

Many vehicle-themed books ask readers to imagine that they're operating the rigs. Ohanesian's rhyming lines asks what it would be like to be the big wheeler itself--and present, through rhetorical questions, dual philosophical approaches to labor, emphasizing values of selflessness and courageousness. Surely readers wouldn't complain "Pew-yew! Yuck! Yuck!" if they were a garbage truck being filled up with smelly trash; wouldn't they, instead, "feel so big and proud,/ Beep your horn and shout out loud/ That you're the town's most trusted waste recycler?" Chou's sunny, mural-like digital spreads show a wide range of anthropomorphized vehicles--a train, a plow, a digger, a crane, and a bus, among others--doing their work with no excuses and plenty of good cheer, alongside an array of appreciative dot-eyed humans of various skin tones and abilities. What the pages lack in socio-emotional nuance, they make up for in lightly proffered, important lessons about responsibility, resilience, and get 'er done spirit. Ages 4--8. (Feb.)