It has been a wonderful day for Charles, the bus-driving polar bear.
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My Bus Driver Is A Polar Bear (The Polar Bear Adventures) (Kindle Edition)
This review refers to the Kindle edition of "My Bus Driver Is A Polar Bear" by David Jacks and Daniel MorrowThis book would be a fabulous read for younger readers. Either on their own or as a read-aloud with parents. It has characters to cheer and characters to jeer. It's got adventure, the joy of friendship, a story that is entertaining and captivating as well as educational. The young reader will also get a taste of the "eco-fiction" genre, as the story touches on the environmental plight of the Polar Bears.
Emma and her Best Friends Forever, Joey and Dominic, discover a startling secret about their school bus driver;and as the title tells us, he is a Polar Bear named Charles, who has been disguised as a man for years. They make a secret pact to snoop around and see what they can find out about Charles. But unknown to them, the mean girl at school and her cohorts are on to our BFFs and are threatening Charles' freedom.
Emma turns to her quirky but lovable aunt - a world traveler and environmentalist - for help, and through the aunt learns how the Polar Bear's home is disappearing because of Global warming. Emma and her buddies must spring into action and try to save the day for Charles before he is locked up in a zoo forever.
The reader will be turning the pages to find out what happens to Charles and his rescuers. While rooting for them, children will gain an easy understanding of the dangers the Polar Bears are in reality facing, and may spark an interest in environmental matters. The book plants the seed without being too preachy or getting to difficult or deeply involved to understand. I think this book would be a great read for boys or girls around 8 -9yrs. - possible a little younger or older, depending on reading and comprehension levels.
The authors are from England and young readers will also come across some spelling of words or phrases that are slightly different than American. For example torch for flashlight, "pegged my wash" instead of "hung out the wash to dry", tyre for tire, and some others. This is a good thing, some day they will hopefully read Brit-lit and will already have a little intro to it.
The kindle - 589 locations(ppbk 122 pgs) - includes several marvelous full-page illustrations by Sushil Shrestha. Easy to read, the formatting was very nice, and I didn't catch any typos. There were times when a sentence stopped in the middle and then skipped a line as if going on to another paragraph, but continued. This did not take away anything from this story, but needed to be mentioned as the readers in this age group are still learning. When I opened this book on my kindle it took me right to chapter one, however if you go back(prev page button) a few pages, you will find the fabulous cover art, and then the title page as well. It's all there.
I've learned there is a sequel, currently titled "The Race To Bear Island" in the works - the first book ends happily but with a bit of a cliff-hanger - so if the kids enjoyed this one, they have at least one more to look forward to.
Right now the price is right to add or gift a book to a kid's kindle!
Enjoy.....Laurie
ppbk:My Bus Driver Is A Polar Bear
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