Awards book received: None Appropriate Grade Level: Preschool – Grade 1 Summary: This book is a children’s book and a sing along. The book illustrates a lively scene of a bus driving around a town with passengers on the bus. The book discusses the various sounds and actions that take place on the bus. The book shows how passengers act in public on a bus. There are babies crying, children eating and a man reading. The book addresses the issue of leadership and shows the responsibility of a bus driver. The book also shows the frealationship and interactions of people on a bus. Uses in classroom: • Individual reading • To teach a lesson about the roles of a bus driver. • Show the children during story time. • Show the pictures and have students discuss what the passengers are doing. • Arrange the chairs to resemble the rows of seats on a bus and have the students pretend they are on a bus. • Discuss the various safety measures that can be taken to prevent accidents that happen on the bus. • Students can write their own stories about what happens on each page of the book. ( )
Illus. in full color. "With a jovial bus driver as host, readers have quite a ride ahead of them as the bus bounces through what appears to be a French town. In her first book the artist humorously injects the familiar song with cheerful new life."--Horn Book.
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As the rickety old bus collects an odd assortment of passengers in a quaint little town, the reader may join in with the sounds of the bus and motions of the driver and passengers.
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Appropriate Grade Level: Preschool – Grade 1
Summary:
This book is a children’s book and a sing along. The book illustrates a lively scene of a bus driving around a town with passengers on the bus. The book discusses the various sounds and actions that take place on the bus. The book shows how passengers act in public on a bus. There are babies crying, children eating and a man reading. The book addresses the issue of leadership and shows the responsibility of a bus driver. The book also shows the frealationship and interactions of people on a bus.
Uses in classroom:
• Individual reading
• To teach a lesson about the roles of a bus driver.
• Show the children during story time.
• Show the pictures and have students discuss what the passengers are doing.
• Arrange the chairs to resemble the rows of seats on a bus and have the students pretend they are on a bus.
• Discuss the various safety measures that can be taken to prevent accidents that happen on the bus.
• Students can write their own stories about what happens on each page of the book. (