“Tim the Truck is big and green.
He’s strong and fast and very mean.”
Everyone knows that people with the name Tim are nice. Like Tim Henman, the tennis player who was always gracious in defeat and who had a hill named after him until it was stolen by Andy Murray. And Harry Enfield had a character called Tim. He was nice.
But this book is about a nasty Tim. What’s that all about? But then I remembered that there was a badboy Tim, Tim Westwood, Radio 1 DJ, liker of fast cars. This book is for him.
Tim the truck is always speeding about not caring about all the other cars until one day he gets stuck and needs their help to escape so he changes his ways.
My 3-year-old daughter has been carrying around this book for the past week or two. She obviously likes the fact that it has a naughty Tim in it, so divorced from all the nice Tims she has come across in real life.
So for Tim Westwood and three-year-olds everywhere this is the book for them.
Publication date: 12 May 2011
Amazon UK link: The Fastest Truck
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