Gus's Garage
Age 3+
Picture Storybooks
Leo Timmers at his best: effortlessly simple text, intricately detailed illustrations, and vehicles galore
Gus’s workshop is chockful of useless odds and ends. But when his friend Rico comes over with a problem—his scooter seat is way too small for a rhino—Gus finds just the thing to solve it.
One by one his friends come to Gus’s Garage and he solves their troubles with ingenious solutions—a cooling system made with a fridge that doubles as ice-cream machine, a burst of speed from a rocket blaster trombone.
Soon the workshop is almost empty. Is anything left to solve Gus’s own problem at the end of a long day?
Creators
Leo Timmers was born in 1970 in Belgium. At the age of 12 he started to draw comics. Trained in graphic design, he illustrates for Belgian magazines and papers as well as illustrating picture books. He now has a large following in Belgium as a preeminent picture book author.
Reviews
Clearly, one animal’s clutter is another pig’s livelihood in this buoyant, rhyming tale.
The New York Times
The most magical picture books tell their story in images, as much as in words. Gus’s Garage, by Leo Timmers, is the best example of seamless storytelling I have seen recently, joining Timmers’ other wonderful books for early picture book readers.
Booksellers NZ
A delightful story. We suggest it is likely to become a reading favourite, both as a title to look over and reread alone, and a first choice bedtime reading book to share.
Bookwagon
