School Bus Drivers

Children's Literature

A short and simple book about school bus drivers and their work. School bus drivers give almost ten billion rides to kids every year. But how do school bus drivers learn to drive a bus? Do they have to go to school? What happens if there is a problem? How do they get help? And who keeps the bus clean and shiny? Say hello to the school bus driver! Every page of this book has one color photograph and a line or two of text. At the end of the book, readers will find pages with facts about school bus drivers, information on school bus drivers through history, suggestions for finding out more, a brief glossary and an index. A good choice for preschool and kindergarten classes whose curriculum includes a unit on community workers. 2005, Lerner Publications, Ages 3 to 5.
—Anita Barnes Lowen

School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-New readers hungry for factual information will be drawn to these titles. While the material is not comprehensive, the books are serviceable as introductory texts. Kangaroos begins with an overview of the Australian animals but focuses throughout on the red kangaroo. Accompanying photographs are adequate, though sometimes fuzzy. Drivers recounts the daily tasks of a familiar community worker. Although the books are in the same series, they do not follow a consistent format. Each one contains a glossary, but Kangaroos ends with a simple "Hunt and Find" bullet list of points covered, whereas Drivers concludes with an index, additional resources, and two pages of facts that, given the likely audience for this book, will require shared reading with an adult. Similar in physical scale to "Pebble Plus" (Capstone) and the "Rookie Read-About" series (Children's Press), these books beg to be held by small hands. However, those series have more appealing graphics, particularly "Pebble Books," with crisp, clear, full-page photos.-Gloria Koster, West School, New Canaan, CT Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.