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I'm A Truck Illustrated Bob Staake Little Golden Books / Random House 2006 ISBN 10: 0375832637 ISBN 13: 978-0375832635   Return To All Books     Behind The Pages With Bob: "'I'm A Truck' is the first Little Golden Book written by Dennis Shealy that I illustrated." -- Bob Staake   It isn't always easy to hide little visual "easter eggs" in my Little Golden Books because the stories are relatively short and I don;t have as much real estate to work with as I do on a traditional picture book, so I really don't want to distract readers (yound or old) with hidden details. I was raised on Little Golden Books as a kid, so I try to honor the tradition(s) of the imprint by making sure that my art is somehow reminiscent of that '1950s-1960's retro look' of the illustrations. This is the first book in which I began giving each page of a 2-pag spread a different background color. I started doing this so when I created my illustration I would have a solid idea of where the center "gutter" would fall, but after finishing the pages I liked the effect so much that I would not give the background a unified color. (See example 1 and 3 to the right.) Summary: HOW-DEE! My name's Big Blue Bill, and I'm a truck. I've got eighteen wheels turning, six hundred horses under the hood, and fifty-three feet o' trailer hanging on behind.       Sample image from book (above)

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