Red Truck Green Truck
There is a book that I loved from childhood called " Мама, Папа, Восемь Детей и Грузовик", which means "Mother, Father, Eight Kids, and the Truck"...It's a delightful story about a Northern Euoropean Couple who have 8 kids. Each name of the kids starts with an M--Morten, Matrin, Marta..etc...and they have a Green Truck. The father is a driver of their loving, green family truck, but one day, the truck gets stolen...
Martin, Mona, Morten and some other kids set out accross the city to go look for their truck, which of course, they can recognize from the lopsided bumper...but it's red! So in exhaust and sadness, they lean against this red truck, only to discover that the paint is still wet...The car thief confesses and brings the truck back to the Father, who takes him on a business partner...
So regardless of what you might think, it's a lovely book, and it's so funny, and on the cover, is the green truck...and then on the back cover is the red truck...they look identical to these, which belong to some people on the adjacent street to where I live.
I might take a picture of the book cover just to prove it, but I can't find the book right now...Also, I'll update about which country specifically they're in....because the book is a translation from that Northern European language into Russian (I have a suspicion it's Dutch, but I have to make sure)....


About 5 miles from my house is this old cranky man who owns a truck just like the ones in the picture..only his is either green or blue. The trucks in those picture look even more out of place on those streets lol