Clean Car, Dirty Car
Clean Car, Dirty Car
by ReadRead · 90 secSplash! Rusty is dirty. Scrub, scrub! Rusty is clean. A first book with one short sentence per page, where mud really flies and bubbles really float.
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Little Rusty the red car is clean and shiny. Splash! He zooms into a mud puddle, and now he is dirty. At the car wash, Robot scrubs him with a big brush, and Rusty is clean again. Tractor splashes in the mud too, and Robot sprays him clean with the hose. Then Rusty splashes Robot by mistake, so a cloud of bubbles washes Robot clean. One last big puddle makes everyone dirty, and at night, under the stars, all three friends are clean and shining.
The new words in this book
No mud on it, shiny and bright. It comes up 8 times, and every time a friend is scrubbed, sprayed or bubbled and comes out shining with a sparkle.
Covered with mud, all brown and messy. It comes up 7 times, and every time a friend splashes through a mud puddle and real brown mud flies and drips.
Made for children just starting kindergarten: one sentence per page, three to six words. One pattern comes back and only one word changes: “Splash! Rusty is dirty.” / “Scrub, scrub! Rusty is clean.”, then Tractor, then Robot. Every other word is one a four-year-old already knows: splash, scrub, spray, bubbles, tractor, robot, stars.
Questions to ask while you read
Pause after each spread and ask one question. There are no right answers; the point is to get your child talking.
- 1Is Rusty clean or dirty? How can you tell?
- 2Splash! What happened to Rusty?
- 3What is Robot doing? What does Rusty look like now?
- 4Who splashes in the mud now? Is Tractor dirty?
- 5What comes out of Robot’s hose?
- 6Oops! Where did the mud go?
- 7Look at all the bubbles! Is Robot clean now?
- 8Who is dirty now? Everyone?
- 9Tap a friend or a toy: is it clean or dirty now?
- 10It is night. Are the friends clean? What is shining in the sky?
How hard is this book?
About 50 words, one short sentence at a time, one pattern that repeats.
- Questions × 1Tap! Clean or dirty?
All 13 words, most used first
is 9 · clean 8 · dirty 7 · splash 4 · everyone 2 · scrub 2 · spray 2 · bubbles · hooray · little · or · stars · tap
Names don’t count: the picture shows who it is.
Tips for parents
- First time: use Read to me and just enjoy the mud and the bubbles. The whole book takes about a minute and a half.
- Join in with the pattern: after two pages, let your child say the last word — “dirty!” or “clean!”
- Act it out: zoom like Rusty, scrub like Robot’s brush, and pop the bubbles with a finger.
- Play it for real at bath time or after playing outside: look at muddy hands, wash them, and say the words: “Dirty! Clean!”