Tow-Truck Pluck
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Pluck has a little red tow truck. He drives it all over town looking for a place to live. Then Dolly the pigeon tells him that the tower of the Pill Building is empty. In the Pill Building, Pluck meets Mr. Penn and Zaza the cockroach. Pluck makes lots more friends and solves all kinds of problems. But the biggest problem is Dove Grove. It used to be a garden with tall trees, but it has been neglected and gone wild. Grown-ups never go there, but the kids from the Pill Building love playing there. But now the Park Superintendent has decided to chop down the trees to make a paved square. Pluck and his friends try to save Dove Grove. But first he has to rescue Longmount from the canal.
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2 primary books#1 in Pluk van de Petteflet
Pluk van de Petteflet is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1971 with contributions by Annie M.G. Schmidt.
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This is a children's picture book and it's a children's chapter book. And it's absolutely delightful. It may be my favorite of the 1001 Children's Books.
It wasn't easy to find.
Tow-Truck Pluck is the story of a little boy, Pluck, who drives a small tow-truck around town, and finds a place to live in the tower of the Pill Building. Pluck quickly makes friends with Aggie (whose mother is obsessed with cleanliness), the Stampers (a dad and his six unruly sons), Dolly (a helpful pigeon), Zaza (a cockroach who comes to live with Pluck), a wolf, a hermite (“I am not here” and, yes, he's a hermite, not a hermit), Carl (a one-legged seagull), a curlicoo (an enormously tall bird that hatched from an orange egg and was taken to be stuffed in a bird museum), and so many more that I can't tell you all about them.
Why isn't this book in every library in America? It would make a fabulous read aloud at schools or for parents with their children. I'd give it six stars if I could.
