Rambling Wild

Though they share their main sentiments, it is my hope that this column will be better received than Jeep’s Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl commercial. Alice Schertle’s Little Blue Truck is a book that is on constant rotation in my kid’s library. In essence, the story follows an old, single cab, blue (please don’t read into the color) pickup truck as it goes about its morning, beeping hello to each animal it passes on the way.

After greeting a handful of barnyard animals in the country, Blue is rudely overtaken by a dump truck who laments his lack of time for politeness and pleasantries. Of cours...