Truck Dogs

About this book

Is it an animal with an engine? Or is it a machine with floppy ears and a wet nose? "With the eye of a Renaissance painter and the early Dr. Seuss Graeme Base is not your basic childrens book author." -People magazine Graeme Base-whose picture books have sold millions of copies worldwide-has turned his creative talents to writing fiction. He and Molly his Labrador friend and collaborator on this project have written a dog story of epic proportions. In a far-off desert world evolution has taken an unexpected turn. The dominant life form is a creature covered in fur with steel panels beneath. It gnaws on bones and sniffs lampposts but fills up on oil brake fluid and petrol to keep running. And its wonderfully clever with its wheels and side-view mirrors-able to do just about anything in fact-which is lucky since it doesnt have arms or legs. Its an animal with an engine. Or is it a machine with floppy ears and a wet nose? Either way its known as a TruckDog. And this is the story of how the world of TruckDogs was saved by a most young and unlikely hero.