News

Appearances

• Come see Chief Mechanic Jon Scieszka in person at the PLA National Conference in Minneapolis on March 25th! Click here for details.

Media Coverage
Check out the coverage of Trucktown and its mechanics by following the links below:

• Keep on Truckin' -- New York Times Book Review
  "The first book in the series, Smash! Crash!, is as rowdy and colorful as anything he’s written...Though digitally rendered, [the images] retain an appealing sketchy quality, and their bright primary colors are as insistent as wrapping paper is to a 3-year-old."
• Stinky Cheese! Ambassador for Children’s Literature -- New York Times
• A Laureate for Kids (It's OK to Laugh) -- Newsweek.com
• Children's Literature Gets First Ambassador -- NPR
• The Big Cheese: Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature -- School Library Journal

Video
See interviews with the creators and publishers of Trucktown in this video clip.