The Little School Bus - Softcover

Roth, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073581905X ISBN 13: 9780735819054

Publisher: North-South Books, 2004

Synopsis

Here comes the school bus, beep, beep, beep! Step right up and take a seat with a sleepy sheep, a squirmy worm, a hairy bear, a quick, quick chick, a fox with socks, a pig in a wig, and a goat in his coat, and ride the bus to school, to school, and ride the bus to school! The bouncy, rhyming text and the bright, witty pictures make ""The Little School Bus a ride that children will want to take over and over again.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Roth has always loved writing. Carol’s many wonderful books include Five Little Ducklings Go to Bed, Where’s My Mommy?, The Little School Bus, Who Will Tuck Me in Tonight?, andTen Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs: An Upside-Down Turn-Around, Bath Time Counting Book.Her books have won a Children’s Choice Book Award (2005), the Missouri Building Block Award for Best Picture Book (2003), and the Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children’s Books (1999). Carol lives in New Jersey (USA) with her husband, Mark.

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From Publishers Weekly:

For the team behind Ten Dirty Pigs, Ten Clean Pigs, a bright yellow school bus becomes the perfect vehicle for a catchy cumulative rhyme and a quirky cast of animal characters. With a natty green-scaled fellow behind the wheel, the bus travels through the rolling countryside and into the bustling, candy-colored town, picking up passengers who eventually include "a squirmy worm, a hairy bear, a quick, quick chick, a fox with socks, a pig in a wig, a goat in a coat, riding the bus to school, to school, riding the bus to school." Roth's singsong rhymes and refrain bounce with the rhythm of the ride and bring to mind a timeless schoolyard chant. Paparone adds comic spice to her radiant, illustrations with witty details that convey various subplots of her own: on the bus, the bespectacled chick works on a laptop while the rapscallion fox vamps in the wig he's pinched from the sleeping, glamour-puss pig; in the city, a cat works as a fishmonger and a bug zooms by the bus on a scooter. The classroom scene sets in motion the pairings to come on the ride home. Thanks to this well-matched duo, this is buoyant fun from pickup to drop-off. Ages 3-6.
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About this edition

• Publisher: North-South Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 073581905X
• ISBN 13: 9780735819054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Paparone Pamela