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The Runaway No Wheeler by Peter Stein and Bob Staake Viking / Panguin Random House 2020 ISBN: 0593114205 ISBN 10: 978-0593114209   Return To All Books     Behind The Pages With Bob: "The moment Peter Stein showed me his manuscript for The Runaway No Wheeler, I knew it would be a real kid-pleaser -- and a huge challenge for an illustrator. I have illustrated enough number-based books to know that when a story says "98 shoes" you need to draw all 98 -- not 97, not 96 -- because you can rest a assured that a little reader WILL place his finger on every show until be arrives at 98. But in The Runaway No Wheeler there was a unique visual problem: HOW do you show in one illustration 16 wheels on a truck with two missing? HOW do you show in one illustration nine wheels on a truck with another nine missing? My answer was simple -- you need to illustrate views of the truck from a low point of view -- so you can see both the left and right side of the vehicle. If you look at the illustrations in the book you can see how difficult this was for me to pull off -- but by the time the truck is down to 8 wheels or less, I was then, and only then, able to show the vehicle in a singular side view profile." -- Bob Staake   The reason that there is a billboard for "Nincompoop Pumbling Fixtures" is because I was arguing in real life with a less than professional plumber in our house when I was illustrating this scene. The billboard is in honor of him. In the 1970s I came up with the idea for a product that I was convinced would be a bigger success than the pizza and the popsicle combined. That's why in the book you see a "Pizza Popsicle" delivery van. While I was creating the final color artwork for the book I decided that it would be fun to make one of the aliens hang on to the truck as a hitchhiker. He hangs on there until the very end of the story. There is a subtle, textual reference to "Seinfeld" as the truck barrels down the road and approaches the city. Publisher Synopsis: Trucks! Counting! Tire-eating aliens! This wonderful, rhyming, super-silly book has it ALL...including Bob Staake's awesome artwork. THE RUNAWAY NO-WHEELER is a clever spin on a counting book and the perennial favorite, a book starring trucks. Tony is a sturdy, long-hauling 18-wheeler with a delivery to make, but many obstacles are in the way -- from potholes to slime to rescue missions to aliens' space rockets. In the style of counting classics like Dr. Seuss' Ten Apples Up on Top -- though in this case, subtractive counting -- Tony finds himself losing wheel after wheel with each hurdle he encounters. Will he be able to make his delivery? - Viking / Penguin Random House   REVIEWS: "Neither snow nor sleet nor missing wheels stay this brave 18-wheeler from its appointed round. Stein and Staake try their hand at a bit of plot after having created multiple books in the free-wheeling Cars Galore (2011) vein. Tony is a massive semi with plenty of experience delivering goods on time. Alas, today is one day when Tony will find himself tested like never before. First he loses a wheel when he slides on some slime. Then poor roads, baby ducks, and wheel thieves beset the brave truck in turn. After the encounter with wheel-eating aliens, Tony's lost 14 wheels. The last four are soon to follow, but what's that? Up ahead lies Tony's destination. Can he make it after all? Staake applies much of the cheerful chaos already perfected when he illustrated Margaret Wise Brown's similarly out-of-control The Steam Roller (2017). A cast of rainbow-colored people gapes and gawps as Tony barrels through candy-colored retro landscapes filled with tiny details for sharp little eyes (and a solid Seinfeld reference for older ones). Whether it's thieves, ET's, or slime, this book's rhymes never strain for the right number of syllables, upping the ante on the action beautifully. A bona fide fiasco on wheels that'll have the kids screaming for more. " -Kirkus Reviews Sample images from book (above)     Get Your Book Signed By Bob

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