Gloria the Summer Fun Bus

by Sue Wickstead

Overview

A children’s picture books about a bus, a Playbus. The stories began with a photographic book about a real bus, with children asking questions it led to fictional stories.

What is a Playbus?

What does it do?

How is it different?

The photographic history book about the project, The ‘Bewbush Playbus’, was published in 2012.

The fictional tale about the bus began with ‘Jay-Jay the Supersonic Bus’, Gloria is the new bus which delivered Play-scheme support over the long school holidays to children. Providing a safe place to play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781916392304
Publisher:	Sue Wickstead
Publication date:	04/26/2020
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.11(d)
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sue Wickstead is a teacher and an author and writes children's picture books with a bus theme. She has also written a photographic history book about the real bus, which is where her story writing began.
Sue once worked with a playbus charity based in Crawley. This led her to write the photographic history book about the project. The 'Bewbush Playbus' book was published in 2012.
Sue then began to write a fictional tale about the bus. 'Jay-Jay the Supersonic Bus', his number plate JJK261 gave him his name and has now been followed by six more picture books which all indeed have a bus connection as well as links to her teaching journey.
Award winning author

Editorial Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely, fun story with a lovely moral!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2020

This was such a lovely, yet fun read! Not only this but I love the little lesson behind the story about giving things a go, and not pre-judging and just getting involved and trying new things!

My eldest son Harry is 3 1/2 years old and this was PERFECT for him! I was worried it may be a little long for his age but it wasn't! He was so engaged all the way through! The language was basic enough for him, there was plenty of dialogue to change voices, and tonnes of descriptive words that I used use my voice to emphasis and he sat and listened and enjoyed all the pictures from start to finish!

The illustrations were beautiful and so colourful and really portrayed the way Max was feeling well and I can't believe how much the picture of the Bus in the story looks like the real thing at the back!

When I was reading it I remember thinking WOW wouldn't this be an incredible thing if this is was real! How amazing it would be for so many local communities to have something like this! And then turn to the back and there is it the REAL Gloria, the REAL fun bus! I wish we had something like that round here I'd totally get my children involved! He loves anything transport and it's such an amazing idea!

I love how Gloria had feelings and the way the author describes her being hurt is how I describe it to Harry! I say things like 'Don't hurt the bus that's not nice' like he has feelings! I just think it's an amazing way to try to teach children about damaging things and making them think and consider what they are doing!

Honestly I absolutely LOVED this story and have seen the others from the Author in the back on the book and I'd love to buy them for my children! Such a lovely little story, even though I wanted to give Max a kick up the bum (not physically I must add) to start with (his mum was so laid back) but also fun, and colourful with an amazing little lesson!

Definitely one I'd recommend and I could not even THINK of giving it any less than a very worthy 5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ when it really managed to grip my crazy, on the go, excitable toddler the WHOLE way through!

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