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Kids Book Review: Breakin’ Down the Bus
Sit down with a set of soon-to-be school-aged kids and talk buses, and you’ll find two very different extremes. Half the pre-school set is champing at the bit to board the bus. The other set sees yellow and runs.
Time to pull out the new picture book by Marilyn Singer.
Published this summer to get them ready for school, I’m Your Bus takes pre-schoolers on a rhyming ride on a vehicle they can trust. After all, he’s your bus.
Fear of riding the bus is a common source of back-to-school time anxiety. But this simple tale of what happens to the bus during the day – from pick up at your stop to nighttime in the yard- offers a cursory introduction to the taxis, trucks and other vehicles they might encounter. It’s the tale of the bus itself that breaks down a great mystery of the first day of school and offers a little comfort.
For tikes who are troubled by the idea of climbing on the big machine and waving goodbye to Mom and Dad, the book is an introduction to the fun side of riding the bus. You can get it from Amazon.
While you’re there, check out Billy Bully by Ana Galan, another rhyming book with a back-to-school theme. Billy the Bull is no one’s friend when he’s a bully. This one skews slightly older, but for kids who are accustomed to being picked on or tend toward a bossy streak, it’s a story that teaches rather than preaches as it gets them ready for back-to-school with a brush up on counting. Get it at Amazon too.
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