Tom the Truck Driver

Tom the Truck Driver

Jess Carrigan

Glen Singleton

Little Steps, 2024

32pp., pbk., RRP $A16.99

 9781922833013

You see them all the time in rural areas – large stock crates carrying sheep or cattle to markets – and smart people learn quickly to make sure the windows of their car are up!  

Participants in this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime will have already learned a little about the life and work of truckies as they shared The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and this new story offers even more insight as Tom gets a call to transport livestock from Digby Station to the markets.  

With an eye-catching  glossy blue cover illustration of the real Tom’s Kenworth and written by the real Tom’s wife, this is an authentic story that will appeal to those who like trucks, those who live on farms where sending livestock to market is part of life and those who think that life on the highway could be the life for them, particularly as 75% of Australia’s total freight movement carried by trucks in an industry worth over $100 billion annually.