Also by Peter Stein: Bugs Galore   Also written and/or illustrated by Bob Staake: I'm a Monster Truck (Little Golden Board Book) My Pet Book Bugs Galore Bluebird We Planted a Tree The Red Lemon Cars Galore by Peter Stein, illustrated by Bob Staake Ages 4-8 32 pages Candlewick March 2011 Hardcover     If your child loves cars, he or she will enjoy reading this picture book over and over again. Filled with a wild collection of whimsical autos, in its pages you’ll find cars with distinctive personalities, awesome features, and rather eccentric passengers. Not only do they come in all colors of the rainbow; you’ll find “Cars on highways! Cars on cliffs! Cars on Skyways! Cars on lifts!” There’s also a “Hundred-feet car. Incomplete car. Scary shark car” and “Noah’s Ark car!” - even a “Rusty, dusty, hunk-of-junk car. Stinky, yucky, smells-like-a-skunk car.” After you’ve had fun looking at this bizarre array of cars, you might wish to take out some paper and let your child design his or her own special car. As Peter Stein does here, push the envelope and come up with something really different - and perhaps just a tad silly!     web reviews   Bob Walch/2011 for curled up with a good kid's book   For grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (www.curledup.com)