Minerva Louise and the Red Truck

Janet Morgan Stoeke. Dutton Books, $14.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-525-46909-4

Favorite characters enjoy all-new adventures in a handful of companion books. The hapless hen returns in her sixth title, Minerva Louise and the Red Truck by Janet Morgan Stoeke, in which she unwittingly mistakes golfers for farmers at work in the field and a construction site for a playground. ""I love to slide,"" she says when she sees a cement truck unloading. (Sept.)

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