Little Cat and the big red bus

Jane Godwin, Illustrations by Anna Walker

Penguin Viking, 2008

 

This simple story with beautiful illustrations also involves a bus. In the story two sisters take the bus to school every day, until the big sister gets sick so the little Cat, has to take the bus by herself, she is scared as she always relays on her sister to get back. She gets to school well but on the way back she falls sleep and misses her stop; the driver doesn’t see she is sleep in the bus so when she wakes up she is alone and frightened. Lucky the driver comes back and takes her back home in a special sit at the front where she can see all the way back to her house and to her family. 

This is also an award winner book, it won the Children’s Book Council of Australia: Notable Australian Children’s books: early childhood and Picture books in 2009.