BB RRP $12.99
ISBN 9780734413116
Reviewed by Hilary Smillie
This great little in-house board book
offers a new slant on the ever-popular nursery rhyme/song. The driver and
passengers are all Australian fauna, and Mandy Foot's bright and quirky artwork
tells a great story.
The cute Wombat bus driver is taking
his passengers on a trip around Australia. At Coober Pedy the
wheels get stuck and
help is needed from Kangaroo. In Tassie, Joey, chased by a Tasmanian Devil, is
hoping the doors of the bus won't shut
until he is aboard. At Bondi Beach a
surf-lifesaver koala is on duty and Emu is eager to step
out of the bus to
go for a swim, but Kangaroo is keen to hop back
in the bus...
There is plenty more fun and action
throughout the book. Toddlers will laugh at the bus becoming water-borne on the
Great Barrier Reef where the wipers certainly need to
swish a lot. In the
outback the emu family find the track especially bumpy, and when the baby emus
and joey start to waah! their mothers
are quick to shhh! them as the bus
crosses a Darwin creek full crocodiles.
Young readers will enjoy singing the song,
naming the animals, and looking for the green gecko on each spread. The music
score is found on the end page while a map of Australia on the inside cover
shows all the destinations, lending a further educational aspect to this
delightful board book.
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