School Bus Board Book [Board book]

Donald Crews (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up

What is large (or small), bright yellow, and filled with students? School Bus!

Climb aboard and let Donald Crews take you to school -- and home again.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A bright yellow school bus is evocative of exuberant kids, gleefully launched spitwads, kind bus drivers, and of course school itself. In Donald Crews's School Bus--written "for the buses, the riders, and the watchers"--preschoolers caught up in the whole school-bus mystique can follow the path of a school bus on its daily travels--minus the aforementioned shenanigans. Crews sticks with the basics, including only a few words per page, such as "Full buses head for school" and "Here we are." Adults reading aloud to children will be able to fill in the blanks and let kids make up their own stories within the framework of this book. Crews, creator of the Caldecott Honor book Freight Train, Parade, and the sturdy, board-book edition of Truck has proven himself to be an expert at conveying basic concepts to youngsters, and this book is no exception! (Baby to Preschool) --Karin Snelson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Donald Crews is the renowned creator of many celebrated children's books, including the Caldecott Honor Books Freight Train and Truck. He and his wife, Ann Jonas, live in New York's Hudson River Valley.

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Donald Crews es el renombrado autor de dos libros merecedores del premio Caldecott, Tren de carga (Freight Train) y School Bus. Vive con su esposa, Ann Jonas, cerca del RÍo Hudson, en Nueva York.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Board book: 36 pages
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books (July 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 069401690X
• ISBN-13: 978-0694016907
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Transportation

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars There's Always One in the Bunch (A review of 'School Bus'), July 18, 2005

By 

Pam Tee "Busy Mom" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: School Bus (Paperback)

Okay, there's always one in the bunch that runs contrary, and I guess, in this case, it's us .

My just turned 3 year-old son and 5 year-old daughter could care less about this book. It was on my entering-kindergarteners Summer Reading List and I suppose they thought that kids would be fascinated by the concept of riding a bus to school... but mine weren't. Probably because there was no plot and little of interest other than the nice pictures of yellow buses.

Text follows, which may or may not help you decide if this book is a good choice for your home shelves:

"Yellow school buses
large and small.
Empty yellow buses cross the town.
Stop.
Go.
Going this way. Going that way.
Here it comes.
See you later.
Full Buses head for school.
Here we are.
Right on time.
Empty buses wait.
School's over.
Full buses cross the town.
Home again.
Home again."

Two Stars. Unrelenting parade of the standard yellow school bus. Nice art, but no story.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A favorite with my toddler, June 22, 2000

By 

Jim Carson "http://www.jimcarson.com" (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: School Bus (Paperback)

School buses are very bright, distinctive, and sometimes mysterious things to a toddler. In the story, we see what "a day in the life of a bus" is like. Buses have homes. People have homes. Buses stop. People stop. It's a wondeful analogy that she understands.

Donald Crews' books are favorites around the house because of their very colorful pictures and simple text. Also recommended: Freight Train, Parade.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars preschoolers love this book, March 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: School Bus (Paperback)

This is a favorite of my preschoolers. The simple text is a great tool for teaching concepts including opposites. We would count the schoolbuses on the first page and discuss other concepts on every page. Children at this age love to read themselves(whether they recognize the words or not)and the simple text in Schoolbus allows them to read the book with ease. For children who ride a bus or may soon ride a bus, it becomes a personal story about their experience. I am purchasing it for my one year old along with several of Crews other books.