Please Don't Chat to the Bus Driver

Young children relish the cumulative mishaps that occur in this picture book as assorted animals, on boarding the bus, ignore the narrator's exhortation, 'don't chat to the Bus Driver!' Eventually Frog's distracting chatter precipitates disaster and the crowded vehicle grinds to a halt. Along comes another bus, on climb the seven animals, but ... Newton uses vibrant oil pastels in bold blocks overlaid with delicate detail to give the characters life and movement. Superb for audience participation, dramatisation or - with its large and very large print - individual reading.