By Stephen Savage
A big red truck hauls one enormous, mysterious load across town and up a mountain, and you don't find out what it's carrying until the very end.
A truck sets off carrying something longer, taller, and heavier than any load you've seen. It has to squeeze through an intersection, creep through a tunnel, and grind all the way up a mountain, and the whole time you can't quite tell what the giant thing on the back actually is. At the top, it turns out to be a single blade for a wind turbine, and the last pages show it spinning. Stephen Savage keeps it bold and simple with clean, chunky shapes a toddler can read from across the room.
It hits the exact spot where a truck-obsessed toddler lives, then adds a why-am-I-turning-the-page pull that most vehicle books don't bother with. Savage's art is graphic and uncluttered, so a very young child tracks the truck easily and feels the effort of each obstacle. And the ending quietly teaches where clean power comes from without ever sounding like a lesson.