- Hi everybody, my name is Maria and this is... - Miller.

- And Miller is 11 years old.

And this is our sweet puppy Hopper.

He's four years old and he's about to fall asleep.

He's already sleeping.

So, we are going to read a book to you today.

And the name of the book is... - [Miller] "The Little Car".

- [Maria] "The Little Car".

- [Maria] And it's written and illustrated by Xu Han.

So, we know what the writer does, Miller, right?

The writer... - Writes the story.

- Writes the sorry, And the illustrator, what does the illustrator do?

- The illustrator makes the pictures.

- Yeah, draws the pictures.

And so Xu Han is obviously very talented because they wrote the book and they also illustrated the pictures as well, right?

- Yeah.

- So this is a little information about the book it's sometimes in the jacket.

And it says, "Counting colors and food words are introduced as the little car travels up and down hills to bring its friend a delicious surprise."

And what delicious surprise does this little car bring into his friends Miller?

- Food and I think mainly fruits.

- Mainly fruits, 'cause fruits are yummy.

The little car climbs over... - [Miller] One hill.

- [Maria] One hill.

- [Maria] The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Two hills.

- [Maria] Two hills, I see some strawberries.

The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Three hills.

- [Maria] Let's count.

- [Maria And Miller] One, two, three, okay.

- [Maria] Let's keep going.

The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Four hills.

- [Maria And Miller] One, two, three, four.

- Okay, this car is going very far.

I wonder where this car is going.

- I wonder how they're getting so much gas.

- I wonder, 'cause it's traveling over some huge, the hills are getting bigger.

The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Five hills.

- [Maria] Five hills.

Let's count the hills.

- [Miller] One, two, three, four, five.

- [Maria] Five hills.

Hmm, I wonder what numbers we'll get to.

The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Six hills.

- [Maria] Six hills.

- [Miller] One, two, three, four, five, six.

- [Maria] The little car climbs over... - [Miller] Seven hills.

- [Maria] Seven hills.

Look at this car, this little car.

Let's count.

- [Miller] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- [Maria] Seven hills.

The little car goes and goes and goes.

There are lots of things in this little car, huh?

Then there are lots of different colors.

The little car... - [Miller] Brings back one red strawberry.

- [Maria] Yum, yum, I love strawberries.

- Me too.

- Yeah.

- The little car brings back... - [Miller] Two oranges, orange, orange.

- Two orange oranges, okay.

The little car brings back... - [Miller] Three yellow pears.

- And pears are yummy.

They're a bit like apples, but they're softer.

But they're yummy.

You don't love pears do you?

- Never had one.

- You haven't?

Okay, we have to fix that.

The little car brings back four... - [Miller] green apples.

- You like green apples, yeah.

- I love green apples.

- There was a time when Miller only wanted green apples.

He'd say, "Mommy, buy me green apples."

- I still want those.

- They're really crunchy.

The little car brings back... - [Miller] Five pink raspberries.

- [Maria] Pink raspberries.

Some raspberries are pink but some are red.

- I've only heard of red raspberries.

- Yeah, pink raspberries that sounds yummy.

The little car brings back... - [Miller] Six blue blueberries.

- [Maria] Six blue blueberries.

The little car brings back... - [Miller] Seven purple grapes.

- [Maria] Seven purple grapes.

The fruits are... - [Miller] Delicious.

The little car is one great friend.

- [Maria] It is one great friend because it brought all these yummy foods to its friends.

The end.

How lovely, what a lovely book.

So Miller and I were just talking and we decided we were going to make a little car.

So the thing about it is that when you wanna make something, you wanna make a piece of art.

And we are thinking you might need paper.

So I got some computer paper, okay?

But honestly, any paper will do.

I would just suggest you ask an adult in the house if you can use a piece of paper.

For instance, this is an old brochure I had that I'm not using anymore.

So I decided I was going to use it to make the car.

I don't need it anymore, so I'm recycling it, okay?

So Miller and I were thinking about a car and what shapes you might need when you're making a car.

So Miller, when we think about a car and we wanna make a simple car, what shape could we use for the top?

- A rectangle?

No, not a rectangle, a square.

- A square.

And the great thing about squares is that they are all, they have four sides and they're all the same size, right?

That's what we know about squares.

Now, what could we use for the bottom part of the car where people sit?

What shape?

- Like I guess a rectangle.

- A rectangle.

A rectangle has four sides as well.

Two sides is short and the other sides are longer, okay?

Now what shape could we use for the wheels?

- Circle.

- Circles, of course.

- So, what I suggest you do, and this is what Miller did, was that he spent some time drawing the shapes, okay?

So why don't you start drawing the shapes?

But what we also did was that we were a little worried about time, so we cut, Miller cut some shapes beforehand.

So here are the shapes here, he cut two circles, okay?

And I used the brochure I had because I don't need it anymore and it was nice to add some color.

So he cut two circles for the wheel.

He cut, what else did he cut?

Oh, he cut, he used just regular paper and he cut a square for the top, right?

And he cut just a rectangle, he cut a rectangle for the bottom of the car.

So now we're going to glue them together, okay?

Now one thing I wanna suggest is that when you get scissors, make sure that they are child safe scissors.

Miller, can you show me the safe way to give me scissors?

What's the safe way?

- You close 'em.

- Yeah.

- And then you hold them like this.

- You hold the bottom, okay?

And you hand them, here you go Miller.

- Thank you.

- And they're child safe scissors, so they're very safe.

So now we're going to glue together the pieces of our car.

So Miller, do you wanna help me glue together the pieces?

Okay, and we'll put the scissors away.

You can continue cutting later.

So you will also need glue sticks.

You know, one time when I was little, Miller, you wanna start gluing?

- Sure.

- One time when I was little I needed to glue something together and I didn't have an any glue sticks.

And I think my mom got flour and water and she mixed it together and she made a little paste and it stuck the stuff together.

So sometimes there are things in your house you can use when you can't find other things.

So Miller is going to start gluing.

Let's see how we can do it quickly, okay?

So first of all, we are...this one is hard to open, let's open this one.

Oopsy daisy.

Oh, here we go.

The glue stick is up and he's gonna glue the top of the car to the bottom.

Yeah, and it's very easy, okay?

Yeah.

And then Miller, are you going to draw a window as well?

So you can do that.

You can draw a window on top so that people can see out the windows 'cause you need them to be able to see out.

So he's going to glue it, we're gonna glue it on, okay?

Right, Miller, right?

- Yeah.

- Oh, oh, should it be on?

And then we're gonna glue on the wheels of the, for the car.

Here is one and here's the other.

And there you go.

You have your car.

And then you can spend some time drawing windows and you can actually draw a person in the car as well, okay?

So that is just a fun way to make a car.

But thank you so much for listening to our story and I hope you can find other cool things in your house to use to make cars.

Hey, thank you.

- Thank you.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Hopper say bye.