The Fire Engine Book (Little Golden Book)

My daycare kids request this book frequently. They love the illustrations and the simple story keeps them engaged. After we read it they use their imaginations and play firemen with our fire truck toys.

When you put together a book for kids book of a certain caliber, I guess it is just good forever. Phones and TVs and cameras may have all changed dramatically, but the way this book presents the idea of a firetruck is that of a timeless essential of modern culture. I mean, you can see clearly through the art and text styles that this specimen of children's literature is decades old, yet it performs its essential function at an optimum level. Little kids love firetrucks, and they don't have the attention span to dilly dally about it. Given that each page only has a handful of words, I think the story could use more pages, but Golden Books have certain qualities, and quick pacing is typically one of them. That said, the more contemporary Golden Books (like the ones for Star Wars and super heroes) typically slow the pacing down a bit by adding closer to three sentences per page. This book is for sure one, or sometimes only a half a sentence per page. Compared to other books, like Goodnight Darth Vader, there are something like four times as many pages using this sort of pace. So, it depends how you look at it. For my three year old, sometimes one of these is enough, or sometimes it can take up to five books this size. I like how shorter stories provide us the trickery of saying, "Just one more book. This is the last bedtime story of the night, OK." Then the kid agrees, but it's a little switcheroo to a quick book like this one (and we do have some even shorter, believe me). You get the picture. It's hard to have anything critical to say towards a book that has survived several decades and remains relevant. Any other critique really doesn't matter.

Purchased this book for my 3 year old grandson. I love the simplicity and nostalgia of the Little Golden Books. His daddy grew up on them, too!

Trip down memory lane. Got this and a few other little golden books for my new born to enjoy. I grew up with books just like this and I hope he enjoys them too.The illustrations were still great. Quality of the book itself still great.

Typical great little Golden book for toddlers .Who doesn’t like Fire Engines & firefighters?

Cute little story.

Great gift

My granddaughter loved this book especially since her Daddy is a firefighter.