Read-Along: The Truck Cat

StoryBox is proud to partner with the Australian Library and Information Association to bring you the National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2025, The Truck Cat, written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell. 

NSS 2025 will be held on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 12pm (AEST)

Register to participate here. 

READ-ALONG WITH STORYBOX!
We're excited to share with you that StoryBox is introducing something special—our Read-Along version of The Truck Cat. With the Read-Along version, kids can follow the story both with their eyes and their ears. As they listen to the fun narration, they’ll also see the words appear on screen in a simplified way, helping them connect spoken words to text. N.B. the read-along captions will appear for the book section of the video only.

Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats.
But Tinka is a truck cat. Tinka lives everywhere.

Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them. Yacoub drives his truck to make a living, learning the landscape of a new country along the way, and longing for connection. When Tinka and Yacoub are unexpectedly separated, they are determined to find their way back to each other – and, in doing so, might find more than they expected …

The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. With illustrations by multi-award-winning artist Danny Snell and words by award-winning new voice Deborah Frenkel, The Truck Cat is the perfect book to inspire kindness and compassion in young children everywhere. Read by Jacek Koman. 

Credits

• Written by

  Deborah Frenkel

• Illustrated by

  Danny Snell

• Performed by

  Jacek Koman

• Published By

  Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing

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