A bus called Heaven

Bob Graham

Candlewick Press, 2012


The story of this book is so emotional and overall engaging. It begins when a bus gets broken and appears in the front a girl’s house Stella; this soon is noticeable by all the neighbourhood and they all decide to do something with it, they all painted and make it a nice place where all can share and enjoy; but one day a tow truck come to take it out of the way and they all try to stop it. Stella makes a deal with the truck driver to try keeping the bus for the community so in this deal they play in the soccer ball table in the bus and the neighbourhood win the truck back, since then they make the bus the place where all share without any difference in races or gender.

Between the many awards that this book has won, the Children’s Book Council of Australia: Children’s book of the year award: picture book of the year is one of the more noticeable, it also won the USBBY Outstanding International Books – Grades K-2 in 2013.

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