Mater tells Lightning McQueen about the time he was a fire truck.

Sound the alarm and get ready to roll with Lightning McQueen and the firefighters of Radiator Springs!

This Deluxe Paint Box Book based on Disney 2 Pixar's upcoming feature film "Cars 2," opening in theaters on June 24, comes with 16 paintwells and a brush. Illustrations. Consumable.

Amazing adventures await readers who open this book. Everyone’s favorite Disney•Pixar CARS stars—Lightning McQueen and Mater—are featured in three hilarious tall tales: "Rescue Mater," "El Materdor," and "UFM: Unidentified Flying Mater." Tucked in the back of this book is a giant poster of Lightning McQueen and Mater for kids to decorate with the included reusable stickers. At nearly 2 1/2 feet wide, the poster makes a dramatic wall decoration that fans will treasure.

Mater rounds up the little tractors who are loose in Radiator Springs.

America’s public universities educate 80% of our nation’s college students. But in the wake of rising demands on state treasuries, changing demographics, growing income inequality, and legislative indifference, many of these institutions have fallen into decline. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, class sizes have gone up, the number of courses offered has gone down, and the overall quality of education has decreased significantly. Here James C. Garland draws on more than thirty years of experience as a professor, administrator, and university president to argue that a new compact between state government and public universities is needed to make these schools more affordable and financially secure. Saving Alma Mater challenges a change-resistant culture in academia that places too low a premium on efficiency and productivity. Seeing a crisis of campus leadership, Garland takes state legislators to task for perpetuating the decay of their public university systems and calls for reforms in the way university presidents and governing boards are selected. He concludes that the era is long past when state appropriations can enable public universities to keep their fees low and affordable. Saving Alma Mater thus calls for the partial deregulation of public universities and a phase-out of their state appropriations. Garland’s plan would tie university revenues to their performance and exploit the competitive pressures of the academic marketplace to control costs, rein in tuition, and make schools more responsive to student needs. A much-needed blueprint for reform based on Garland’s real-life successes as the head of Miami University of Ohio, Saving Alma Mater will be essential for anyone concerned with the costs and quality of higher education in America today.

In this collection of tales, Mater spins his stories of his past as a matador, a daredevil stunt car, and the hero of a rescue-squad unit.