What's Everybuggy Reading: Sam
Tin Lizzie
by Allan Drummond
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Did you see me build a new Gorf spaceship in this month’s Spider with just my tools and some tapioca pudding? I'm not the bragging kind of caterpillar, but I can be a pretty good fixer-upper. In this book, Lizzie’s grandpa is the same way. He spends all day tinkering around in his garage, and he loves anything on wheels.
Grandpa passes on his love of all things mobile to Lizzie and her three younger brothers (I, too, inherited my handy, er, leggy skills from my grandpa—as well as my thick yellow fuzz). While the kids were growing up, Grandpa wheeled them around in strollers, wagons, and toy cars while repeating his favorite saying: “You gotta have wheels!” One day Grandpa finally finishes working on his pride and joy, an old Ford named Tin Lizzie, and they all take it out for a spin. But Lizzie and her brothers start thinking—what if too many people love cars like they do? What would happen if the world ran out of oil?
This book got me wondering—how can everyone get around without using up all the earth’s limited resources? H’m . . . what if all cars ran on tapioca pudding? My pudding-fueled car will be called—The Samborghini!
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