Blog Tour and Giveaway: Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine by Joe Fisher

Join Us for This Book Series Tour:  Aug 22 to Sep 9, 2022

Book Series Details:

Book Series Title: The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine by Joe Fisher
Category:  Children's Fiction (Ages 4-8)
Genre:  Children's Fiction
Publisher:  Angler Publishing
Release date:   May 2017,  August 2021
Content Rating:  G for children.  

 

Books in the Series:

Book Details:

Book Title: Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine (The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine) by Joe Fisher
Category:  Children's Fiction (Ages 4-8), 32 pages
Genre:  Children's Fiction
Publisher:  Angler Publishing
Release date:   May 2017
Content Rating:  G for children.  

 

Book Description:

When the Mayor Himself decides the town of Someport-by-the-Sea needs a new fire engine the Fire Chief picks a shiny, bright red one that has all the latest tools needed to put out fires. The new fire engine becomes the joy of the children in town and the pride of the fireman and townspeople alike.

But after many years the fire engine becomes old and worn until everyone begins to laugh and call it Rusty. Sad and forlorn Rusty is ignored and forgotten. Then during the 4th of July parade in a summer like no other Rusty saves the day in a most surprising and unusual way.

Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine tells the story of a fire engine and the fireman and boy who love him. It is a lighthearted and multi-layered story, richly told, that will appeal to children and adults alike.

Whimsical illustrations create an air of fantasy, drawing children into Rusty’s world while stimulating their imaginations as they follow Rusty’s journey from hero to outcast and back again.

​The surprise ending brings the tale to a heart-warming and satisfying conclusion that reveals all things have hidden value that is waiting to be released. Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine is a classic story of love, loss, transformation and redemption. 

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Book Details:

Book Title: Rusty Goes to Water World (The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine) by Joe Fisher
Category:  Children's Fiction (Ages 4-8), 36 pages
Genre:  Children's Fiction
Publisher:  Angler Publishing
Release date:   August 2021
Content Rating:  G for children.  

 

 

Book Description:

The townspeople of Someport-by-the-Sea want to honor Rusty for saving them during the “Summer Like No Other” so the Mayor Himself decides a park should be named in Rusty’s honor. But, finding the right place is not as easy as it sounds. Then when students at Sea Stone Elementary take Rusty on their end of year celebration at Water World things don’t go as planned.

​Just as Mr. Spritz the Manager of Water World is about to close the park because of an equipment failure, Rusty, with the help of Fireman Jim and Mike the Deputy Fire Chief, once again saves the day and in the process finds a new home in a water park that bears his name.

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Meet the Author:

After successful careers in market research and public health consulting, Joe now writes fulltime from his home base in Sanibel Island, Florida. 
Like his career, his writing is wide ranging from academic books to works for the trade including: 

• Killer Among Us: Public Reactions to Serial Murder,  
• The Next Breath: New Life After Near Death 
• His work has earned praise from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Library Journal, The Miami Herald and the New England Journal of Medicine among others. 

Recently, Joe jumped to the world of children’s picture books with the series The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine: 

• Book 1 – Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine 
• Book 2 – Rusty Goes to Water World 

A third book in the series, Rusty and Calliope, is in development.  
In addition, a fourth children’s book, Ospreys in the Outfield: A Sanibel Story will be available in the fall 2022. 

connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ goodreads

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Guest Post: 

Write What You Know

By Joe Fisher

During one phase of my career, I founded, owned and operated a market and media research firm.  We did a potpourri of tasks for our clients.  Although outside our usual strike zone, at one point we managed the circulation for Lear’s magazine.  

Lear’s was the brainchild of Frances Lear, ex-wife of Norm Lear the creative force behind such popular 1970’s sit-coms as All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Maude to name a few.  With a divorce settlement rumored to be $100 Million or more, Frances was about as bitter as one person could be who had been thrown over by her husband for a woman decades younger.  

Frances channeled her anger into a magazine she founded for mature women and named after herself.  Stylish and trendy Lear’s lasted seven years before it closed.   Yet, while it probably never made money, it did reach a previously unrecognized and unappreciated audience and touched them in a very personal way.  

We worked for Frances during the last half of the 1980’s.  It was the era of The Bonfire of the Vanities according to Tom Wolfe.  When greed was good and bond traders were the masters of the universe.  While lesser mortals slept on the street in refrigerator boxes placed on top of grates that offered some warmth from the subway below. 

The Cross Bronx Expressway, my route from Westport, Connecticut to midtown Manhattan to see Frances, looked like the route of a retreating, defeated army column ambushed by the enemy.  Cars abandoned on the roadside in various stages of decomposition from pristine on Monday to up on blocks, missing tires and doors, burned-out and covered with graffiti by the end of the week.

Coincidentally the Cross Bronx Expressway is the site of the mishap that propels the action in Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities.  Bond trader Sherman McCoy takes a wrong turn, accidentally kills a pedestrian and rushes from the scene before helping the victim and he is found out.  

Frances’ apartment where we met was in the 60’s on the Upper East Side.  To add to the coincidence it was reputed to be Tom Wolfe’s neighborhood.  

One day as I was walking a few blocks from Frances’s apartment I noticed a man in a cream-colored suit with a colorful shirt and tie and matching white hat walking in the same direction.  Immediately obvious, it was Tom Wolfe dressed in his signature, flamboyant ensemble.  As I watched, he stopped at a corner and stood for a few minutes.  Then a school van pulled up, a young girl, presumably his daughter Alexanda, popped out who went to Wolfe, took his hand and they walked away.

In his novel, Wolfe describes a scene where Sherman McCoy goes to a bus stop to  meet his daughter and walk her back their Upper East Side residence.  I had just watched this fictional meeting  in real life.  Tom Wolfe author and father writing what he knew.

Tour Schedule:

Aug 22 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / guest post / giveaway
Aug 22 - Jazzy Book Reviews – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 22 - Faith and Books - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 23 – Book Zone Reviews - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 23 - Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 24 – A Mama's Corner of the World – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 24 - icefairy's Treasure Chest – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 25 – A Mama's Corner of the World – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 25 - Jazzy Book Reviews – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 26 – Writer with Wanderlust - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / guest post / giveaway
Aug 26 - icefairy's Treasure Chest – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 29 – Captive Dreams Window - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / author interview / giveaway
Aug 29 - Sandra's Book Club – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / guest post / giveaway
Aug 29 - Faith and Books - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 30 – Lisa's Reading – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Aug 31 - Paws.Read.Repeat - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / author interview / giveaway
Aug 31 – Book Zone Reviews - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Aug 31 - Sandra's Book Club – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 1 – Library Lady's Kid Lit - book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / author interview / giveaway
Sep 1 - Splashes of Joy – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Sep 1 - Captive Dreams Window - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 2 – Reading is My Passion – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / guest post / giveaway
Sep 2 - Library Lady's Kid Lit - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 2 - Writer with Wanderlust - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 5 – Cover Lover Book Review – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / author interview / giveaway
Sep 6 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / guest post / giveaway
Sep 6 - Bound 4 Escape – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Sep 6 – Lisa's Reading – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 7 – Pause for Tales – book review of RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE / giveaway
Sep 7 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 7 = Paws.Read.Repeat - book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 8 – Pause for Tales – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 8 – Reading is My Passion – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 8 - Splashes of Joy – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 9 – Cover Lover Book Review – book review of RUSTY GOES TO WATER WORLD / giveaway
Sep 9 - Bound 4 Escape – book review of RUSTY GOES TO THE WATER WORLD / giveaway

Enter the Giveaway:

RUSTY THE FORGOTTEN FIRE ENGINE Book Tour Giveaway

My Review: 

Rusty The Forgotten Fire Engine starts Joe Fisher’s The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine series. I really enjoyed this cute and heartwarming little story of how Rusty is turned away as he aged, becoming useless and cast aside. I love how he was redeemed and others find his true value and importance to everyone. I thought it was wonderful and a great life lesson to teach young and old readers. We all could learn these important messages and be reminded of them from time to time.

Rusty The Forgotten Fire Engine is illustrated by the talented artist, Jaye Boswell. The colorful and vivid pictures perfectly go along with the story. They are helpful with keeping the younger readers engaged and understand as to what is going on. 

Rusty The Forgotten Fire Engine will be getting a very well deserved five plus stars. It would be a great fit for readers who are between the ages of three and eight. I would love to see it on shelves in local libraries and classrooms for story times. I look forward to reading the next installment from the The Adventures of Rusty the Forgotten Fire Engine series, Rusty Goes to Water World, to see what else happens to Rusty the Fire Engine. This one should not be missed.

I received a hard cover copy of Rusty The Forgotten Fire Engine from the publisher, but was not required to write a positive review. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.